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What do women want? It depends on the time of the month

By Guest PostMarch 1, 2014Healthcycle, do, facial symmetry, genetic quality, heterosexual sex partners, hypothesis, kelly gildersleeve, martie haselton, menstrual cycle, meta analysis, offspring, ovulation, ovulatory cycle, reproducing, reproductive success, sexual ornaments, sexual preference, sexy traits, time of month, what, woman, women want

UCLA researchers publish landmark meta-analysis of sexual preferences at ovulation

If she loves you and then she loves you not, don’t blame the petals of that daisy. Blame evolution.

UCLA researchers analyzed dozens of published and unpublished studies on how women’s preferences for mates change throughout the menstrual cycle. Their findings suggest that ovulating women have evolved to prefer mates who display sexy traits – such as a masculine body type and facial features, dominant behavior and certain scents – but not traits typically desired in long-term mates. (more…)

Computer Viruses Could Take a Lesson from Showy Peacocks

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Computer viruses are constantly replicating throughout computer networks and wreaking havoc. But what if they had to find mates in order to reproduce?

In the current issue of Evolution, Michigan State University researchers created the digital equivalent of spring break to see how mate attraction played out through computer programs, said Chris Chandler, MSU postdoctoral researcher at MSU’s BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. (more…)

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What do women want? It depends on the time of the month

Computer Viruses Could Take a Lesson from Showy Peacocks