Vol. 23 (Suppl 4) 2002 Neuro endocrinology letters

Female mate value at a glance: relationship of waist-to-hip ratio to health, fecundity and attractiveness.

: A fundamental assumption of adaptive explanations of female attractiveness is that bodily features that males judge as attractive reliably signal youthfulness, healthiness, and fertility or female mate value. One of the bodily features, waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), is a reliable indicator of a female's reproductive age, sex hormone profi.....