Paternity cues and mating opportunities: What makes fathers good?

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-107

  Prokop, Pavol ^a,b   Obertová, Zuzana ^b   Fedor, Peter ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Facial attractiveness; Facial resemblance; Paternal investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958048809     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10211-010-0079-0     Document Type: Article

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