So, what do you think determines whether a woman chooses a mate to be her temporary lover, or her lifetime partner to have kids, the white picket fence and the golden retriever - the whole shubang with?  Well according to a new and controversial study on a theory of human attraction and how physical characteristics can tell certain things about personality and temprement called

The idea that women pick their male mates and lovers due to almost subliminal signals sent by the way a guy looks makes sense though.  Otherwise, why would all those Hollywood stars with chiseled features be the coveted physical ideal of a masculine, virile, man? 

The premise goes like this : Women tend to choose lifetime partners who have rounder faces and fuller lips, typical traits of the feminine.  They conversely tend to select men with strong, square jawlines, broad shoulders, and other very masculine features, to be flings or short term relationships. 

Pictures shown to women in the study upheld the belief that women tend to see men with an abundance of testosterone, and therefore more masculine traits, as being perhaps overly tempered, more likely to cheat, and a bit more unreliable as fathers, but they tend to see men who do not have as many obviously masculine physical traits as being nonthreatening, a good person to settle down with.