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Human females engage in courtship display to lesser extent in shape of presenting their [[beauty|curves]], [[nubility]], [[neoteny]] enhanced by [[fakeup|makeup]] and related means of arousing attention.

Courtship among humans is special due to the disproportionally large amount of resources that males provide, which is, in fact, unique among primates and also extreme compared to animals overall (see [[hypergamy]]). For this reason, human males not only engage in display of their ornament, but also their wealth, e.g. by buying an expensive ring.

Humans are less ornamented than other animals like birds, but they do have ornament which mostly consists of smoothness, averageness and symmetry ([[beauty|simplicity]]). Such ornament and exaggerated sexual attraction to it may have evolved by [[Fisherian runaway|runaway selection]]. Courtship of both sexes involves presentation of this ornament, e.g. a male may groom himself and show off a nice smile, whereas the female may present breast and buttocks.