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Female Attractiveness Evolutionary Psychology's Unfinished Business

John Glad

10.46469/mq.2007.47.3.4

Published: 2007/03/01

Abstract

This article argues that many of the mechanisms that determine perceptions of female attractiveness are shaped by sexual selection, but the behavioral expression of these preferences is regulated by higher-order mechanisms of behavioral homeostasis. Until such problems as the nature and mechanism of female beauty are resolved, sociobiology must be viewed as an unproven methodology.

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