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Nature 399, 216 (20 May 1999) | doi:10.1038/20348;

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Yu and Shepard reply — We have proposed that cultural invariance in beauty preferences could be an artefact of exposure to a dominant culture, and also that evolutionary psychology should embrace variation because adaptive evolution is as likely to produce variable outcomes as fixed ones. Accordingly, Manning et al . suggest that a culturally variable male preference for women with high WHR might reflect a culturally variable preference for producing more sons with higher testosterone levels. But this intriguing explanation probably does not apply to the Matsigenka people.

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