Pawlowski Boguslaw, Boothroyd Lynda G, Perrett David I, Kluska Sylwia
Department of Anthropology, University of Wroclaw, Wroclaw, Poland.
Coll Antropol. 2008 Jun;32(2):457-60.
In order to test the assumption that female attractiveness relates to reproductive success, photographs of 47 rural Polish women taken in their youth were rated for attractiveness, and BMI at age 18 was recorded; these measures of attractiveness were then compared with their subsequent life histories. Facial attractiveness did not relate to number of children or grandchildren. It also did not relate to age of marriage or husband's education. It did relate to number of marriages and husband's height. BMI at age 18 did not relate significantly to any of the outcome variables. These results suggest that although more attractive women may have married higher quality (taller) husbands and may in ancestral population have achieved greater reproductive success this way, there is no evidence in a modern, European Catholic society for their having greater reproductive success.
为了检验女性魅力与生殖成功率相关这一假设,研究人员对47名波兰农村女性年轻时的照片进行了魅力评分,并记录了她们18岁时的体重指数(BMI);然后将这些魅力指标与她们随后的生活经历进行了比较。面部魅力与子女或孙辈的数量无关。它也与结婚年龄或丈夫的教育程度无关。它确实与婚姻次数和丈夫的身高有关。18岁时的BMI与任何一个结果变量均无显著关联。这些结果表明,尽管更具魅力的女性可能嫁给了素质更高(个子更高)的丈夫,并且在祖先群体中可能因此获得了更大的生殖成功,但在现代欧洲天主教社会中,没有证据表明她们具有更高的生殖成功率。