ArticleEvolution and human behavior : official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society2016
Facial averageness and genetic quality: Testing heritability, genetic correlation with attractiveness, and the paternal age effect.
Article in Evolution and human behavior : official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Further evidence that averageness and femininity, rather than symmetry and masculinity, predict facial attractiveness judgments.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Is the human face a biomarker of health? - A scoping review.PloS one · 2025Article
- Assessing the roles of shape prototypicality and sexual dimorphism in ratings of the trustworthiness of faces.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Facial attractiveness is only weakly linked to genome-wide heterozygosity.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The Effects of Pitch Manipulation on Male Ratings of Female Speakers and Their Voices.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Genes influence facial attractiveness through intricate biological relationships.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Genome-wide association study reveals sex-specific genetic architecture of facial attractiveness.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
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- Social interactions in different environments impacts and motivates reproductive displays in college students.Heliyon · 2017Article
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Popular theory suggests that facial averageness is preferred in a partner for genetic benefits to offspring. However, whether facial averageness is associated with genetic quality is yet to be established. Here, we computed an objective measure of facial averageness for a large sample (
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