Men's Preference for Women's Facial Features: Testing Homogamy and the Paternity Uncertainty Hypothesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Bovet, Jeanne ^a   Barthes, Julien ^a   Durand, Valérie ^a,b   Raymond, Michel ^a,b   Alvergne, Alexandra ^c  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE COLOR; EYEBROW; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; LIP; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PATERNITY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UNCERTAINTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; PATERNITY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84869810927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049791     Document Type: Article

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