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What Does Women's Facial Attractiveness Signal? Implications for an Evolutionary Perspective on Appearance Enhancement.

Benedict C Jones, Alex Jones Orcid Logo, Victor Shiramizu, Claire Anderson

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s10508-021-01955-4

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In their Target Article, Davis and Arnocky (2020) suggest that evolutionary theories of mate preferences can contribute to our understanding of why appearance-enhancement behaviors are seemingly ubiquitous. We support their argument that an interdisciplinary approach, in which evolutionary and other...

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