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Masculine Preferences in Mating

Steven Gangestad of the University of New Mexico has researched female preferences for ‘macho’ males when women are ovulating.

“The effects of facial masculinity and attractiveness fit in a larger picture that has emerged,” another study author, Christine Garver-Apgar of the University of Colorado, said in a statement.

“There’s probably 30-plus papers documenting ovulatory cycle shifts and women’s preferences,” Garver-Apgar told AOL Health. “Those were predicted based on evolutionary theory.”

Primarily male scientists have claimed in the past that evolutionary biology predicts a female preference for a strong, masculine man able to defend home, hearth and her children.