Facial leanness more important than bone mass/dimorphism

[ChimpBall]

Adiposity, compared with masculinity, serves as a more valid cue to immunocompetence in human mate choice - PMC

According to the ‘good genes’ hypothesis, females choose males based on traits that indicate the male's genetic quality in terms of disease resistance. The ‘immunocompetence handicap hypothesis’ proposed that secondary sexual traits serve as ...

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Antibody response was significantly correlated with facial attractiveness (r69 = 0.43, p < 0.001), in line with previously reported findings using the current sample [29]. In the multiple regression model, facial adiposity significantly predicted facial attractiveness, whereas facial masculinity and antibody response did not (figure 1b). Both adiposity and masculinity were significantly predicted by antibody response (figure 1b). The electronic supplementary material, figure S2 illustrates the facial features associated with high- and low-antibody response. As with the body measurements, adiposity significantly mediated the relationship between antibody response and facial attractiveness, whereas masculinity did not (see table 1 and the electronic supplementary material, table S2). There was no significant difference between the specific indirect effect through adiposity and the specific indirect effect through masculinity (table 1). Circulating testosterone levels were significantly correlated with adiposity (r69 = 0.52, p < 0.001) and masculinity (r69 = 0.38, p = 0.001). There was no significant difference in the testosterone–adiposity and testosterone–masculinity correlations (Steiger's Z = 1.04, d.f. = 66, p = 0.28).

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Water

 

[watah]

Facial leanness comes from bones but wtv

 

[ChimpBall]

Facial leanness comes from bones but wtv

It affects how lean your face looks, especially forward growth (see why gooks look so bloated), but even boneless subhumans can have a lean face if they have good fat distribution or very low bf

 

[FascisstChad]

This or death

 

[Mosh12]

It affects how lean your face looks, especially forward growth (see why gooks look so bloated), but even boneless subhumans can have a lean face if they have good fat distribution or very low bf

Would you say the more bones you have the higher body fat you can get away with?

 

[ChimpBall]

Would you say the more bones you have the higher body fat you can get away with?

Usually but not necessarily. Native americans bonemog whites pretty hard but are not considered attractive because of their fat distribution