Researcher apologizes for pointing out that black women are less attractive than women of other racial groups

Satoshi Kanazawa, reader in the department of management at the London School of Economics (LSE), caused an uproar when he wrote a blog posting on the US-based website Psychology Today titled: "Why are black women less physically attractive than other women?" The Japanese evolutionary psychologist based his findings on a survey in which white, Asian, black and Native American men and women were asked to rate each other's attractiveness based on photographs. Black women scored lowest, Asian women highest. Kanazawa, who has worked at the LSE since 2003, said that this was because black women had higher testosterone levels than others and therefore had more masculine features.