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Is female attractiveness related to final reproductive success?

Pawlowski, B.; Boothroyd, L.G.; Perrett, D.I.; Kluska, S.

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Authors

B. Pawlowski

D.I. Perrett

S. Kluska



Abstract

In order to test the assumption that female attractiveness relates to reproductive success, photographs of 47 rural Polish women taken in their youth were rated for attractiveness, and BMI at age 18 was recorded; these measures of attractiveness were then compared with their subsequent life histories. Facial attractiveness did not relate to number of children or grandchildren. It also did not relate to age of marriage or husband’s education. It did relate to number of marriages and husband’s height. BMI at age 18 did not relate significantly to any of the outcome variables. These results suggest that although more attractive women may have married higher quality (taller) husbands and may in ancestral population have achieved greater reproductive success this way, there is no evidence in a modern, European Catholic society for their having greater reproductive success.

Citation

Pawlowski, B., Boothroyd, L., Perrett, D., & Kluska, S. (2008). Is female attractiveness related to final reproductive success?. Collegium antropologicum, 32(2), 457-460

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jul 1, 2008
Deposit Date Apr 28, 2014
Publicly Available Date Apr 30, 2014
Journal Collegium antropologicum.
Print ISSN 0350-6134
Electronic ISSN 1848-9486
Publisher Croatian Anthropological Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 32
Issue 2
Pages 457-460
Keywords Aattractiveness, BMI, Reproductive success, Height, Faces.
Publisher URL http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=43030

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