Sexual imprinting in human mate choice

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1544, 2004, Pages 1129-1134

  Bereczkei, Tamas ^a   Gyuris, Petra ^a   Weisfeld, Glenn E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolved mating preferences; Homogamy; Phenotype matching; Sexual imprinting

Indexed keywords

MATE CHOICE;

ADOPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2942581155     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2672     Document Type: Article

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