Mate retention behavior modulates men's preferences for self-resemblance in infant faces

Evolution and Human Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 118-126

  Welling, Lisa L M ^a   Burriss, Robert P ^a   Puts, David A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mate retention; Paternal certainty; Self resemblance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551661011     PISSN: 10905138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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