Women Use Red in Order to Attract Mates

Ethology

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 605-613

  Prokop, Pavol ^a   Hromada, Martin ^b,c  

^a TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRE OV   (Slovakia)

^c POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; ORNAMENTATION; SAMPLING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION;

SLOVAKIA;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84879003208     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12102     Document Type: Article

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