Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans

By D. Puts. 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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No evidence for sexual dimorphism of facial width-to-height ratio in four large adult samples (2012, background): “Alternatively, intra-sex competition could also lead to sexually dimorphic traits if such traits provide a selective advantage through dominance in competition over mates (for review see Puts, 2010).”
Vocal masculinity is a robust dominance signal in men (2010, background): “Contest competition was likely an important means by which ancestral men competed for mates (Puts 2010), and several lines of evidence suggest that vocal masculinity in particular functioned as a dominance signal in this context (Ohala 1983, 1984; Tusing and Dillard 2000; Puts et al. 2006, 2007).”
The relative importance of intra- and intersexual selection on human male sexually dimorphic traits (2018, positive): “…(e.g., Cunningham, Barbee, & Pike, 1990; Neave & Shields, 2008; Saxton et al., 2016), dominance (e.g., Saxton, Mackey, McCarty, & Neave; Wolff & Puts, 2010) and mating or reproductive success (e.g., Stulp, Pollet, Verhulst, & Buunk, 2012) are sometimes nonlinear, calling for an investigation…”
Cross-cultural effects of color, but not morphological masculinity, on perceived attractiveness of men's faces (2012, background): “Further, recent theoretical work has suggested that the primary selective force driving the evolution of more robust features in male faces may have been intrasexual competition rather than female choice (Puts, 2010).”
The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization (2015, background): “…history perspective (Kaplan and Gangestad 2005), just as sex differences in body hair, muscle mass, and voice pitch emerge most strongly at puberty (Puts 2010), many psychological sex differences may be designed to emerge most strongly with the onset of such factors as ambulatory exploration…”
Are badges of status adaptive in large complex primate groups (2015, background): “While men lack the pronounced canines that characterize high levels of male–male competition in other primates (Plavcan, 2012), sexual dimorphism in muscularity, craniofacial shape, and beards could play analogous roles in same-sex competition as signals of dominance that secondarily influence attra”
Voice pitch influences voting behavior (2012, background): “Prior research shows that perceptions of attractiveness and dominance based on voice pitch are separable (Jones et al., 2010; Puts, 2010).”
Testing an Adaptationist Theory of Trait Covariation: Relative Bargaining Power as a Common Calibrator of an Interpersonal Syndrome (2013, background): “…men have been subjected to a much a more intense evolutionary history of physical contest competition than women (Puts, 2010), which is evidenced by the fact that men have evolved to have at least 80% greater upper-body muscle strength than women on average (Lassek & Gaulin, 2009; Puts, 2010).”
Who is The Fairest One of All? How Evolution Guides Peer and Media Influences on Female Body Dissatisfaction (2011, background): “Although freely choosing a partner may seem to be the modal mating pattern, it is not and was not in our evolutionary past (Apostolou, 2007; Broude & Greene, 1983; Puts, 2010).”
Intrasexual competition among women: Vocal femininity affects perceptions of attractiveness and flirtatiousness (2011, background): “Although women engage relatively infrequently in other forms of mating competition, such as rival-directed physical aggression (Archer, 2009; Puts, 2010), they endeavor to look attractive (Cashdan, 1996; Schmitt & Buss, 1996), and they possess anatomical traits, such as neotenous faces and body fat ”
Meta-Analysis of Menstrual Cycle Effects on Women’s Mate Preferences (2014, background): “4 This tabulation does not include studies that failed to obtain direct hormonal assays and instead estimated women’s hormonal levels from self-reported menstrual day (e.g., Puts, 2006).”
The Science of Sex Appeal: An Evolutionary Perspective (2010, background): “Looking across primate species, humans show an exaggerated sex difference in overall muscle mass and physical strength, suggesting that muscle mass provided an advantage to ancestral males in terms of hunting, acquiring resources, and in male-male competition (Lassek & Gaulin, 2009; Puts, 2010).”
Sex differences in sports interest and motivation: An evolutionary perspective. (2015, background): “Other evidence also supports the idea that female mate choice, although important at times, would have often been less crucial to men’s mating success than direct contests for status with other men (Hill et al., 2013; Llaurens et al., 2009; Puts, 2010).”
Men's masculinity and attractiveness predict their female partners' reported orgasm frequency and timing (2011, background): “In addition, many masculine traits may have originated in men primarily through male dominance contests rather than female choice (Puts, 2010) but may be especially strong indicators of genetic quality.”
The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013, background): “Similarly, because men differed in their capacity 1Hominins are the group of species that evolved after the split from our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and bonobos, and which includes the australopithecines, Homo erectus, Neanderthals, and us. to invest, women evolved to compete for the most”
Disgust: evolved function and structure. (2013, background): “…Singh, 1993), others might be given more weight by females in assessing the qualities of males (e.g., cues of direct intrasexual competitiveness; Gangestad, Simpson , Cousins, Garver-Apgar, & Christensen, 2004; Little, Jones, & DeBruine, 2008; Puts, 2010; Snyder, Kirkpatrick, & Barrett, 2008).”
Human sexual selection (2016, background): “When we consider aspects of size that are more directly comparable to nonhuman primates, we find that men have about 40% more fat free mass and 60% more muscle mass than women [8].”