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These features could include traits that contribute to the desired male 'v-taper' shape, such as narrow waists and wide clavicles, traits that are unrelated to actual strength or perhaps detrimental to it in some instances. | These features could include traits that contribute to the desired male 'v-taper' shape, such as narrow waists and wide clavicles, traits that are unrelated to actual strength or perhaps detrimental to it in some instances. | ||
Wide clavicles, in particular, represent one sexually dimorphic trait<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22138028/</ref> that could have conceivably been subject to [[Fisherian runaway|Fisherian sexual selection]] throughout humanities evolutionary past. While women generally find this trait attractive in a male partner (and wide clavicles contribute to the width of one's shoulders exclusive of soft tissue, which is associated with greater physical attractiveness)<ref>https://www.unm.edu/~abryan/articles/femalehipratio.pdf</ref> it seems there is no relationship between clavicle length (to the humerus) and throwing ability in men. This lack of a relationship indicates that this trait is primarily ornamental (not serving a direct adaptive function apart from increasing sexual attractiveness to the opposite sex).<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267812769_Clavicle_length_throwing_performance_and_the_reconstruction_of_the_Homo_erectus_shoulder</ref> | Wide clavicles, in particular, represent one sexually dimorphic trait<ref>https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22138028/</ref> that could have conceivably been subject to [[Fisherian runaway|Fisherian sexual selection]] throughout humanities evolutionary past. While women generally find this trait attractive in a male partner (and wide clavicles contribute to the width of one's shoulders exclusive of soft tissue, which is associated with greater physical attractiveness)<ref>https://www.unm.edu/~abryan/articles/femalehipratio.pdf</ref> it seems there is no relationship between clavicle length (in relation to the humerus) and throwing ability in men. This lack of a relationship indicates that this trait is primarily ornamental (not serving a direct adaptive function apart from increasing sexual attractiveness to the opposite sex).<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267812769_Clavicle_length_throwing_performance_and_the_reconstruction_of_the_Homo_erectus_shoulder</ref> | ||
==Relative contribution of face and body to attractiveness== | ==Relative contribution of face and body to attractiveness== | ||