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Europeans have the most sexually dimorphic faces (more masculine men, more feminine women), Africans the least: "People of European origin and South Americans showed a higher level of sexual dimorphism in facial shape compared to people of African origin." "All European countries revealed larger differences between male and female average faces than in all the other populations." "The possible explanation of lower sexual dimorphism in Africa may be either relaxed selection pressure favoring morphological femininity of female faces or masculinity of male faces, alternatively due to positive selection for more feminine faces in males, or the masculinization of faces in females." Source: How and why patterns of sexual dimorphism in human faces vary across the world (2021)