European hair and eye color. A case of frequency-dependent sexual selection?

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 85-103

  Frost, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender roles; Monogamy; Pigmentation; Polygyny; Sexual selection; Upper Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

EID: 32644462565     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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