We say that women select for stone age traits.
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But this study, which looked at the mate choices not mate preferences of hunter gatherer women, indicates that these women are not selecting for height.
Wheras in this post industrial society height is extremely important to women.
Sometimes studies say that women don't have a strong preference for tall men,
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but their choices in a partner say otherwise.
How universal are human mate choices? Size does not matter when Hadza foragers are choosing a mate
It has been argued that size matters on the human mate market: both stated preferences and mate choices have been found to be non-random with respect to height and weight. But how universal are these patterns? Most of the literature on human mating patterns ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
But this study, which looked at the mate choices not mate preferences of hunter gatherer women, indicates that these women are not selecting for height.
Wheras in this post industrial society height is extremely important to women.
Sometimes studies say that women don't have a strong preference for tall men,
New study suggests that height of a potential partner doesn't matter that much to women - or does it? | News24
Good news for all the guys who didn't quite make the height cut.
but their choices in a partner say otherwise.
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