Adaptations to Ovulation

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Women's Sexual Strategies: The Evolution of Long-Term Bonds and Extrapair Sex (2006, background): “Moreover, in this study, women with relatively symmetrical par tners actually showed an increase in attraction to their own longterm mates at midcycle (Gangestad et al., 2005b).”
Strategies of Human Mating (2006, background): “Women show a special preference for men who are symmetrical and masculine when they are ovulating - precisely the time when they are most likely to conceive a child (Gangestad et al., 2005).”
The evolution of human mating. (2007, background): “Women show a special preference for men who are symmetrical and masculine when they are ovulating—precisely the time when they are most likely to conceive a child (Gangestad et al., 2005).”
Conditional mate preferences: Factors influencing preferences for height (2008, background): “…that women prefer these traits most strongly when the only benefits they might receive are genetic, such as in a short-term mate (Frederick & Haselton, 2007; Johnston et al., 2001) or when they are most likely to conceive, during the fertile phase of their ovulatory cycle (Gangestad et al., 2005).”