The limits imposed by culture: Are symmetry preferences evidence of a recent reproductive strategy or a common primate inheritance?

© Cambridge University Press 2000. Published version reproduced with the permission of the publisher.Women's preference for symmetrical men need not have evolved as part of a good gene sexual selection (GGSS) reproductive strategy employed during recent human evolutionary history. It may be a remnant of the reproductive strategy of a perhaps promiscuous species which existed prior to the divergence of the human line from that of the bonobo and chimp