Morphological and population genomic evidence that human faces have evolved to signal individual identity

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Sheehan, Michael J ^a   Nachman, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CORRELATION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM; SIGNALING;

ADAPTATION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FACE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SELECTION; HUMAN GENOME; METAGENOMICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HOMO SAPIENS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84922364599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5800     Document Type: Article

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