Human facial beauty - Averageness, symmetry, and parasite resistance

Human Nature

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 237-269

  Thornhill, Randy ^a   Gangestad, Steven W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Fluctuating asymmetry; Heterozygosity; Mate choice; Nepotism; Parasites; Reciprocity; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249164957     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: 19364776     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02692201     Document Type: Article

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