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Comment author: [deleted] 11 July 2012 11:55:46PM *  2 points [-]

evo-psych seems to consistently under-predict for women's sexual interest in physical attractiveness

I suspect this might be a societal effect (akin to the now-widespread evolutionarily nonsensical male preference for very thin women). Does anyone have data on whether women in pre-industrial (or even just pre-mass media) societies cared about men's looks less than they today?