A recent study led by the University of Eastern Finland explored sexual selection in humans by investigating whether female odor-based mating preferences could predict how compatible male and female ...

A newly published survey reveals that heterosexual men and women who place high importance on a romantic partner’s height are ...

A variety of hypotheses for how female mating preferences evolve have been inspired by results from fieldwork, experiments and mathematical modelling. Most of these hypotheses fall into one of two ...

According to an article by Schwarz and colleagues, published in the June 2020 issue of Evolutionary Psychological Science, men and women have significantly different mating preferences. 1 To ...

A study in Australia ran a computer simulation that showed how assortative mating (the preference for romantic partners similar to oneself) arises spontaneously when heritable traits and heritable ...

In their efforts to identify the genetic basis for differences in mate choice that keep two co-existing species of butterfly separate, evolutionary biologists at Ludwig-Maximlians-Universitaet (LMU) ...

A myth I like to bust early on in my evolutionary psychology lectures is the idea that mate preferences are unique to each person and that everyone wants different things. For every person who wants a ...

Group size and mating preferences may have caused male primates, including humans, to evolve deeper voices than females. The findings can help to shed light on social behavior in humans and their ...

Pavitra Muralidhar, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, has developed a theory to explain why females of some species are more attracted to ...

New study finds that large group size and mating systems where males have multiple mates drove evolution of deeper male voices in primates, including humans UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Deeper male voices ...