Wide faces or large canines? The attractive versus the aggressive primate

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2004, Pages

  Weston, Eleanor M ^a   Friday, Adrian E ^b   Johnstone, Rufus A ^b   Schrenk, Friedemann ^a  

^a SENCKENBERG RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canine dimorphism; Facial attractiveness; Mate choice; Pan troglodytes

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE; PRIMATE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; TOOTH;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CANINE TOOTH; CHEEK; CHIMPANZEE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; FACE; FACIAL ATTRACTIVENESS; FACIAL DIMORPHISM; GORILLA; HOMINID; INTERSEXUAL COMPETITION; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION;

GORILLA GORILLA; PAN TROGLODYTES;

EID: 17044423039     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0203     Document Type: Article

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