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Male facial attractiveness and masculinity may provide sex- and culture-independent cues to semen quality.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Sept 2014

Soler C, Kekäläinen J, Núñez M, Sancho M, Álvarez J G, Núñez J, Yaber I, Gutiérrez R

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Phenotype-linked fertility hypothesis (PLFH) predicts that male secondary sexual traits reveal honest information about male fertilization ability. However, PLFH has rarely been studied in humans. The aim of the present study was to test PLFH in humans and to investigate whether potential ability to select fertile partners is independent of sex or cultural background. We found that on the contrary to the...

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PMID: 25056484
DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12446

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