TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence for Genetic Variation in Human Mate Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Physical Traits
AU - Verweij, Karin J. H.
AU - Burri, Andrea V.
AU - Zietsch, Brendan P.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Intersexual selection has been proposed as an important force in shaping a number of morphological traits that differ between human populations and/or between the sexes. Important to these accounts is the source of mate preferences for such traits, but this has not been investigated. In a large sample of twins, we assess forced-choice, dichotomous mate preferences for height, skin colour, hair colour and length, chest hair, facial hair, and breast size. Across the traits, identical twins reported more similar preferences than nonidentical twins, suggesting genetic effects. However, the relative magnitude of estimated genetic and environmental effects differed greatly and significantly between different trait preferences, with heritability estimates ranging from zero to 57%. © 2012 Verweij et al.
AB - Intersexual selection has been proposed as an important force in shaping a number of morphological traits that differ between human populations and/or between the sexes. Important to these accounts is the source of mate preferences for such traits, but this has not been investigated. In a large sample of twins, we assess forced-choice, dichotomous mate preferences for height, skin colour, hair colour and length, chest hair, facial hair, and breast size. Across the traits, identical twins reported more similar preferences than nonidentical twins, suggesting genetic effects. However, the relative magnitude of estimated genetic and environmental effects differed greatly and significantly between different trait preferences, with heritability estimates ranging from zero to 57%. © 2012 Verweij et al.
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UR - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23166631
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049294
DO - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049294
M3 - Article
C2 - 23166631
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 7
JO - PLOS ONE
JF - PLOS ONE
IS - 11
M1 - e49294
ER -