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What Men really Want – and Why

Is the popular idea of men's taste in women an evolutionary response or a cultural one?

Men and female figures – the idea that men are programmed by evolution to lust after women with a 0.7 waist to hip ratio is being challenged by new research in Peru. Plans to decontaminate Spanish farmland affected by the Aznalcollar disaster that polluted the river with toxic mine waste. Long-distance truck drivers are spreading HIV in India. The elusive prospects for finding an HIV vaccine. The fossil ancestors of the whale that lived in the Himalayas, some 53 million years ago.

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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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