Social Dominance and Attractiveness (again)

Posted by Tanos on Thu 21 Jul 05, 9:54 PM

This month Nature and The Economist have both had interesting summaries of a paper about male social dominance and attractiveness during the menstrual cycle: the more dominant men were more attractive while the women tested were ovulating, but not during the rest of the month. Yet more evidence for the connection between male sexual attractiveness and social dominance, and mediated by pheromones in this case.