Women's Faces Get Redder At Ovulation, But Human Eyes Can't Pick Up On It
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 09:10
in Biology & Nature
Studies have shown that men find female faces more attractive when women are ovulating, but how they might know - the visual clues that allow this - are unclear. New research research sought to show it might be subtle changes in skin color and that women's faces do increase in redness during ovulation. The scholars found it was so, but the levels of change are just under the detectable range of the human eye. They speculate that facial redness in females was once an involuntary signal for optimal fertility, but has since been "dampened" by evolution - it's best not to look too fertile walking down those city streets and psychologists think that is how evolution works. read more