Preferred waist-to-hip ratio and ecology

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 481-489

  Marlowe, Frank ^a   Wetsman, Adam ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary psychology; Hadza hunter gatherers; Mate preferences; Waist to hip ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038752291     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00039-8     Document Type: Article

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