Darwinian aesthetics: Sexual selection and the biology of beauty

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 385-407

  Grammer, Karl ^a   Fink, Bernhard ^a   Møller, Anders P ^b   Thornhill, Randy ^c  

^a LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractiveness; Beauty standards; Darwinian aesthetics; Face; Humans; Mate choice; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ESTHETICS; FACE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; REVIEW; SEXUAL SELECTION; VOICE;

ANIMALS; BEAUTY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; DARWINIA;

EID: 0141483151     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1464793102006085     Document Type: Review

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