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HERITABILITY OF PREFERENCES FOR MULTIPLE CUES OF MATE QUALITY IN HUMANS

Overview of attention for article published in Evolution, January 2012
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Title
HERITABILITY OF PREFERENCES FOR MULTIPLE CUES OF MATE QUALITY IN HUMANS
Published in
Evolution, January 2012
DOI 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01546.x
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Brendan P. Zietsch, Karin J. H. Verweij, Andrea V. Burri

Abstract

Human mate preferences have received a great deal of attention in recent decades because of their centrality to sexual selection, which is thought to play a substantial role in human evolution. Most of this attention has been on universal aspects of mate preferences, but variation between individuals is less understood. In particular, the relative contribution of genetic and environmental influences to variation in mate preferences is key to sexual selection models but has barely been investigated in humans, and results have been mixed in other species. Here, we used data from over 4000 mostly female twins who ranked the importance of 13 key traits in a potential partner. We used the classical twin design to partition variation in these preferences into that due to genes, family environment, and residual factors. In women, there was significant variability in the broad-sense heritability of individual trait preferences, with physical attractiveness the most heritable (29%) and housekeeping ability the least (5%). Over all the trait preferences combined, broad-sense heritabilities were highly significant in women and marginally significant in men, accounting for 20% and 19% of the variation, respectively; family environmental influences were much smaller. Heritability was a little higher in reproductive aged than in nonreproductive aged women, but the difference was not significant.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 3%
Malaysia 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Netherlands 1 1%
Romania 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 63 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 14 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 19%
Researcher 11 16%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 7%
Student > Master 5 7%
Other 12 17%
Unknown 10 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 24 34%
Psychology 22 31%
Social Sciences 3 4%
Neuroscience 2 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 14 20%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 August 2022.
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#7,713,861
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#2,570
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#65,093
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