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MHC-assortative facial preferences in humans.

Biology letters - 22 Dec 2005

Roberts S Craig, Little Anthony C, Gosling L Morris, Jones Benedict C, Perrett David I, Carter Vaughan, Petrie Marion

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Individuals tend to choose mates who are sufficiently genetically dissimilar to avoid inbreeding. As facial attractiveness is a key factor in human mate preference, we investigated whether facial preferences were related to genetic dissimilarity. We asked female volunteers to rate the attractiveness of men from photographs and compared these results with individual genotypes at the major histocompatibility...

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PMID: 17148217
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0343
PMCID: PMC1626373

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