Word: jasienska
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Judy T. Greenberg ’07 said she once had a crush on a boy with “massively asymmetrical” thumbs, breaking with conventional wisdom that symmetry is beauty. But a new study by Radcliffe fellow Grazyna Jasienska goes one step further, linking hand symmetry in women not only to beauty—but to greater fertility...
...Evolutionarily speaking, when it comes to the...selection of female partners, the most important thing is fertility,” said Jasienska, of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...
...Jasienska and her team tested 171 urban and rural Polish women during their menstrual cycle, according to the study. Women with up to a 1 millimeter difference in length between the second and fourth digits of their hands were considered symmetrical, and the rest were dubbed asymmetrical...
...percent increase in estradiol levels increases a woman’s likelihood to get pregnant threefold, Jasienska said...
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