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Physical Attractiveness and the Theory of Sexual Selection: Results from Five Populations

Doug Jones with a foreword by Donald Symons 1996
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In this fascinating study of five populations, author Doug Jones explores the possibility that hardwired into the human psyche are standards of beauty that are really preferences and signals for good health.
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Series
  • Anthropological Papers Series
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-949098-82-2 (ebook)
  • 978-0-915703-40-1 (paper)
Subject
  • Anthropology
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Foreword, Donald Symons
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Physical Attractiveness: Evolution, Psychology, and Anthropology
    • The rise and fall of physical attractiveness
    • Evolution and human behavior today
    • Psychological perspectives on attractiveness
    • Anthropological perspectives on attractiveness
  • Chapter 2. The Theory of Sexual Selection
    • Natural selection and sexual selection
    • Mate choice
    • Mate preference
    • Sexual selection and macroevolution
    • Sexual selection and human evolution
  • Chapter 3. Five Populations
    • Sites and itinerary
    • Research methods
    • Results and discussion: comparing standards of attractiveness
  • Chapter 4. Age, Mate Value and Attractiveness
    • Age, fecundity and mate value: theory
    • Age and attractiveness: evidence
    • Age and attractiveness: nature, nurture and mechanisms
  • Chapter 5. Signs of Age and Fecundity
    • Facial proportions
    • Skin and hair color
    • Body shape
    • Conclusion: sexual selection and human proportions
  • Chapter 6. Symmetry, Averageness and Health
    • Fluctuating asymmetry
    • The attraction of averageness: health, age and information processing
    • Summing up: neoteny, asymmetry, averageness
  • Chapter 7. Race, Social Status and Attractiveness
    • Psychological mechanisms, social consequences
    • Beauty in the world system
    • Beleza tropical: race and somatic prejudice in Brazil
  • Chapter 8. Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Plates
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