Cues to fertility: perceived attractiveness and facial shape predict reproductive success.
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F12%3A00063908" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/12:00063908 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513812000475" target="_blank" >http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513812000475</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.05.005" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.05.005</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Cues to fertility: perceived attractiveness and facial shape predict reproductive success.
Original language description
Attractive facial features in women are assumed to signal fertility, but whether facial attractiveness predicts reproductive success in women is still a matter of debate. We investigated the association between facial attractiveness at young adulthood and reproductive life history - number of children and pregnancies - in women of a rural community. For the analysis of reproductive success, we divided the sample into women who used contraceptives and women who did not. Introducing two-dimensional geometric morphometric methodology, we analysed which specific characteristics in facial shape drive the assessment of attractiveness and covary with lifetime reproductive success. A set of 93 (semi)landmarks was digitized as two-dimensional coordinates in postmenopausal faces. We calculated the degree of fluctuating asymmetry and regressed facial shape on facial attractiveness at youth and reproductive success.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
BB - Applied statistics, operational research
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Evolution and Human Behaviour
ISSN
1090-5138
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
7
Pages from-to
708-714
UT code for WoS article
000310668700012
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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