#709 Jeanne Bovet: The Evolution of Female Attractiveness, and Parent-Offspring Conflict in Mating
RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 8th 2022.
Dr. Jeanne Bovet is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at Northumbria University. Broadly, she tries to understand how evolution shaped our preferences, and what its consequences are in our contemporary lives. Her work has covered various topics such as parent-offspring conflict over mate choice, variation in feminine beauty standards through history, sexual selection on age at menopause, and mate preferences for homogamy in facial features.
In this episode, we talk about female attractiveness, and parent-offspring conflict over mate choice. We first talk about the evolutionary rationale behind female attractiveness, and what men evolved to find most attractive in women. We get specifically into the waist-to-hip ratio, and facial attractiveness. We discuss variation in female attractiveness across time and cultures. Finally, we talk about parent-offspring conflict over mate choice.
Time Links:
Intro
The evolution of female attractiveness
What men find most attractive
The waist-to-hip ratio
Facial attractiveness
Variation in female attractiveness across time and cultures
Parent-offspring conflict over mate choice
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University page: https://bit.ly/382bJdY
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/3M6KoX0