Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Facial masculinity does not appear to be a condition-dependent male ornament in humans and does not reflect MHC heterozygosity
A. A. Zaidi, J. D. White, B. C. Mattern…·M. D. Shriver
The paper examines facial masculinity as a potential condition-dependent male ornament and finds it correlates with height but not MHC heterozygosity, refuting its role as an immunocompetence indicator.