Contents
List of figures
Foreword, Donald Symons
Preface
Acknowledgments
The rise and fall of physical attractiveness
Evolution and human behavior today
Psychological perspectives on attractiveness
Anthropological perspectives on attractiveness
Natural selection and sexual selection
Mate choice
Mate preference
Sexual selection and macroevolution
Sexual selection and human evolution
Sites and itinerary
Research methods
Results and discussion: comparing standards of attractiveness
Age, fecundity and mate value: theory
Age and attractiveness: evidence
Age and attractiveness: nature, nurture and mechanisms
Facial proportions
Skin and hair color
Body shape
Conclusion: sexual selection and human proportions
Fluctuating asymmetry
The attraction of averageness: health, age and information processing
Summing up: neoteny, asymmetry, averageness
Psychological mechanisms, social consequences
Beauty in the world system
Beleza tropical: race and somatic prejudice in Brazil
Chapter 8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Plates