David Puts

Professor of Anthropology

Huck Affiliations

Publication Tags

Sexual Selection Testosterone Hormones Dna Body Size Psychology Sex Characteristics Sexual Behavior Social Attraction Hydrocortisone Dominance (Genetics) Attractiveness Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Asymmetry Traits Androgens Evaluation Vocalization Personality Mating Success Ancestry Gender Genes Phenotype Menstruation

Most Recent Publications

Evidence for Perinatal Steroid Influence on Human Sexual Orientation and Gendered Behavior

Ashlyn Swift-Gallant, Talia Shirazi, David A. Puts, S. Marc Breedlove, 2022, Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology

Sex differences are insufficient evidence of ecological adaptations in human females

Toe Aung, Sojung Baek, David Puts, 2022, Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Associations Between Sexual Desire and Within-Individual Testosterone and Cortisol in Men and Women

Kevin A. Rosenfield, Heather Self, Talia Shirazi, Rodrigo Cardenes, Justin Carré, Triana Ortiz, Khytam Dawood, David A. Puts, 2022, Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology on p. 156-178

Low Perinatal Androgens Predict Recalled Childhood Gender Nonconformity in Men

Talia N. Shirazi, Heather Self, Kevin A. Rosenfield, Khytam Dawood, Lisa L.M. Welling, Rodrigo Cárdenas, J. Michael Bailey, Ravikumar Balasubramanian, Angela Delaney, S. Marc Breedlove, David A. Puts, 2022, Psychological Science on p. 343-353

Evidence for perinatal steroid influence on human sexual orientation and gendered behavio

A Swift-Gallant, T Shirazi, David Puts, S Breedlove, 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology on p. 1-14

Author Correction: Linking human male vocal parameters to perceptions, body morphology, strength and hormonal profiles in contexts of sexual selection (Scientific Reports, (2020), 10, 1, (21296), 10.1038/s41598-020-77940-z)

Christoph Schild, Toe Aung, Tobias L. Kordsmeyer, Rodrigo A. Cardenas, David A. Puts, Lars Penke, 2021, Scientific Reports

Low fundamental and formant frequencies predict fighting ability among male mixed martial arts fighters

Toe Aung, Stefan Goetz, John Adams, Clint McKenna, Catherine Hess, Stiven Roytman, Joey T. Cheng, Samuele Zilioli, David Puts, 2021, Scientific Reports

Heterozygosity of the major histocompatibility complex predicts later self-reported pubertal maturation in men

Steven Arnocky, Carolyn Hodges-Simeon, Adam C. Davis, Riley Desmarais, Anna Greenshields, Robert Liwski, Ellen E. Quillen, Rodrigo Cardenas, S. Marc Breedlove, David Puts, 2021, Scientific Reports

Evidence that perinatal ovarian hormones promote women's sexual attraction to men

Talia Shirazi, Heather Self, K Dawood, Lisa Welling, Rodrigo Cárdenas, R Cardenas, Kevin Rosenfield, J Bailey, Ravikumar Balasubramanian, Angela Delaney, S Breedlove, David Puts, 2021, Psychoneuroendocrinology on p. 1-7

Do voices carry valid information about a speaker's personality?

Julia Stern, Christoph Schild, Benedict C. Jones, Lisa M. DeBruine, Amanda Hahn, David A. Puts, Ingo Zettler, Tobias L. Kordsmeyer, David Feinberg, Dan Zamfir, Lars Penke, Ruben C. Arslan, 2021, Journal of Research in Personality

Most-Cited Papers

Modeling 3D Facial Shape from DNA

Peter Claes, Denise Liberton, K Daniels, Kerri Matthes Rosana, Kerri Matthes Rosana, Ellen Quillen, Laurel Pearson, Brian McEvoy, Marc Bauchet, Arslan Zaidi, Wei Yao, Hua Tang, Greg Barsh, Hua Tang, Devin Absher, Gregory S. Barsh, Devin M. Absher, Jorge Rocha, David A. Puts, Sandra Beleza, Jorge Rocha, Sandra Beleza, Rinaldo Pereira, Rinaldo W. Pereira, Jennifer Wagner, James Boster, Gareth Baynam, M Shriver, Paul Suetens, Dirk Vandermeulen, Jennifer K. Wagner, James S. Boster, Mark D. Shriver, 2014, PLoS Genetics on p. e1004224

Women's attractiveness changes with estradiol and progesterone across the ovulatory cycle

David A. Puts, Drew H. Bailey, Rodrigo A. Cárdenas, Robert P. Burriss, Lisa L.M. Welling, John R. Wheatley, Khytam Dawood, 2013, Hormones and Behavior on p. 13-19

How valid are assessments of conception probability in ovulatory cycle research? Evaluations, recommendations, and theoretical implications

Steven W. Gangestad, Martie G. Haselton, Lisa L.M. Welling, Kelly Gildersleeve, Elizabeth G. Pillsworth, Robert P. Burriss, Christina M. Larson, David A. Puts, 2016, Evolution and Human Behavior on p. 85-96

Quantifying the strength and form of sexual selection on men's traits

Alexander K. Hill, John Hunt, Lisa L.M. Welling, Rodrigo A. Cárdenas, Michelle A. Rotella, John R. Wheatley, Khytam Dawood, Mark D. Shriver, David A. Puts, 2013, Evolution and Human Behavior on p. 334-341

Human sexual selection

David Andrew Puts, 2016, Current Opinion in Psychology on p. 28-32

Sexual selection on male vocal fundamental frequency in humans and other anthropoids

David A. Puts, Alexander K. Hill, Drew H. Bailey, Robert S. Walker, Drew Rendall, John R. Wheatley, Lisa L.M. Welling, Khytam Dawood, Rodrigo Cárdenas, Robert P. Burriss, Nina G. Jablonski, Mark D. Shriver, Daniel Weiss, Adriano R. Lameira, Coren L. Apicella, Michael J. Owren, Claudia Barelli, Mary E. Glenn, Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez, 2016, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences on p. 20152830

The relative importance of intra- and intersexual selection on human male sexually dimorphic traits

Tobias L. Kordsmeyer, John Hunt, David A. Puts, Julia Ostner, Lars Penke, 2018, Evolution and Human Behavior on p. 424-436

Endocrinology of human female sexuality, mating, and reproductive behavior

Natalie V. Motta-Mena, David A. Puts, 2017, Hormones and Behavior on p. 19-35

Are there vocal cues to human developmental stability? Relationships between facial fluctuating asymmetry and voice attractiveness

Alexander K. Hill, Rodrigo A. Cárdenas, John R. Wheatley, Lisa L.M. Welling, Robert P. Burriss, Peter Claes, Coren L. Apicella, Michael A. McDaniel, Anthony C. Little, Mark D. Shriver, David A. Puts, 2017, Evolution and Human Behavior on p. 249-258

Fulfilling desire: Evidence for negative feedback between men's testosterone, sociosexual psychology, and sexual partner number

David A. Puts, Lauramarie E. Pope, Alexander K. Hill, Rodrigo A. Cárdenas, Lisa L.M. Welling, John R. Wheatley, S. Marc Breedlove, 2015, Hormones and Behavior on p. 14-21