Second to fourth digit ratio and face shape

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1576, 2005, Pages 1995-2001

  Fink, Bernhard ^a   Grammer, Karl ^b   Mitteroecker, Philipp ^c   Gunz, Philipp ^c   Schaefer, Katrin ^c   Bookstein, Fred L ^c   Manning, John T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2D : 4D; Digit ratio; Face shape; Geometric morphometrics; Hormones; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; TESTOSTERONE;

HORMONE;

ADULT; ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; FEMININITY; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASCULINITY; MATE CHOICE; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION;

EID: 26244436868     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3179     Document Type: Article

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