Highlights•Sexual selection has been stronger in humans than is often assumed.•Ancestral
men competed primarily through force and threat of force.•Ancestral women competed …

Hormones orchestrate and coordinate human female sexual development, sexuality, and
reproduction in relation to three types of phenotypic changes: life history transitions such as …

Psychologists have uncovered dozens of ways men and women differ in affect, behavior,
and cognition. Social role theorists assume that men's and women's psychological …

The human voice is a rich source of information and an important means of interpersonal
communication. Beginning with Darwin (1872), vocal communication has long interested …

Facial attractiveness confers considerable advantages in social interactions, 1, 2 with
preferences likely reflecting psychobiological mechanisms shaped by natural selection …

Information from faces and voices combines to provide multimodal signals about a person.
Faces and voices may offer redundant, overlapping (backup signals), or complementary …

Selection should favor mating preferences that increase the chooser's reproductive success.
Many previous studies have shown that the women men find most attractive in well …

This chapter reviews studies on voice attractiveness from evolutionary, social, and cognitive
neuroscience perspectives. Taking this interdisciplinary approach, it explores what makes a …

Non-verbal behaviours, including voice characteristics during speech, are an important way
to communicate social status. Research suggests that individuals can obtain high social …

Fluctuating asymmetry (FA), deviation from perfect bilateral symmetry, is thought to reflect an
organism's relative inability to maintain stable morphological development in the face of …