Digit ratios (2D:4D and other) and relative thumb length: A test of developmental stability

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 143-152

  Voracek, Martin ^a   Offenmüller, Denise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS; FINGER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; THUMB;

ADULT; ANDROGENS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FETUS; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEX FACTORS; THUMB;

EID: 34548647954     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.105.1.143-152     Document Type: Article

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