MHC-assortative facial preferences in humans

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 400-403

  Roberts, S Craig ^a,b   Little, Anthony C ^b   Gosling, L Morris ^a   Jones, Benedict C ^c   Perrett, David I ^d   Carter, Vaughan ^e   Petrie, Marion ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^e NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beauty; Good genes; Heterozygosity; HLA; Imprinting; Mate choice

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 29144431509     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0343     Document Type: Article

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