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The Gender Attractiveness Gap

2025-05-26

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Writers from Darwin to Dawkins have noted that, in humans, women are considered the “beautiful sex,” whereas in most species, it is the males who display more elaborate and visually striking traits. This reversal of typical sex roles is a peculiarity of the human species and has been the focus of extensive theoretical debate. Yet, it has never been systematically examined or empirically verified. Here, we present...

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Literature Corpus work: 4de5e60c-2d0b-5255-95d5-e8bf50ad3f16
DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.21.655261

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