Costs and benefits of fat-free muscle mass in men: relationship to mating success, dietary requirements, and native immunity

By W. D. Lassek, S. Gaulin. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Physiology

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Quantifying the strength and form of sexual selection on men's traits (2013, result): “These results support the notion that men's approximately 60% greater muscularity (Lassek & Gaulin, 2009) and voices approximately five standard deviations lower in pitch and timbre (Puts et al., 2012) evolved in the context of male contests (Puts, 2010).”
The human anger face evolved to enhance cues of strength (2014, background): “The last datum is relevant because numerous data sets have established that upper body strength in modern males is about 90% greater than in females (Abe, Kearns, & Fukunaga, 2003; Lassek & Gaulin, 2009), with the distributions of the two sexes only minimally overlapping.”
Vocal masculinity is a robust dominance signal in men (2010, background): “In addition, objective measures of physical dominance, such as strength (Lassek and Gaulin 2009) and height (Mueller and Mazur 2001), and measures of social dominance (Chagnon 1988; Perusse 1993) predict components of mating success in contemporary populations.”
Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans (2010, background): “Men also have about 65% greater lower body strength (Lassek & Gaulin, 2009; Mayhew & Salm, 1990), over 45% higher vertical leap, and over 22% faster sprint times (Mayhew & Salm, 1990).”
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).”
Meta-Analysis of Menstrual Cycle Effects on Women’s Mate Preferences (2014, background): “…when androgens in combination with other hormones stimulate growth of the jaw, cheekbones, and brow ridges; lengthen the center of the face; promote facial and body hair; coarsen the skin, lower voice pitch; and increase musculature, lean body mass, and height (Lassek & Gaulin, 2009; Rhodes, 2006).”
The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013, background): “For several reasons, size dimorphism is not a useful indicator of ancestral mating patterns in our species (e.g., Lassek & Gaulin, 2009).”