Men's Preferences for Women's Breast Morphology in New Zealand, Samoa, and Papua New Guinea.
Sexual selection via mate choice may have influenced the evolution of women's breast morphology. We conducted an image-based questionnaire quantifying and comparing the preferences of men from Papua New Guinea (PNG), Samoa, and New Zealand (NZ) for images of women's breast size, breast symmetry, are...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 40; no. 6; pp. 1271 - 1280 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2011
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