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What do women want in men? It's not that simple

Recent analysis shows women's menstrual cycles may not affect their mate preferences.

(Inside Science) -- A long-held theory in evolutionary psychology suggests that heterosexual women's attraction to certain types of men ebbs and flows with their menstrual cycles. But a recent study from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles casts doubt on that claim, causing friction between different schools of thought in psychology.