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Some of the most exciting findings inspired by evolutionary psychology in the past decade have demonstrated that women’s mating preferences and behavior change reliably with the phase of the ovulatory cycle (Gangestad, Thornhill, & Garver-Apgar, 2005a). For example, naturally cycling (i.e., non-pill-using) women are more attracted to the scent of sym-metrical men (Gangestad & Thornhill, 1998), to men with masculine faces (Penton-Voak et al., 1999), and to men who display competitiveness and dominance (Gangestad, Garver