Reassessing the association between facial structure and baseball performance: A comment on Tsujimura & Banissy (2013)

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Mayew, William J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASEBALL; BODY MASS; FACE; FACIAL FEATURES; HUMAN; NOTE; SPORTS ACHIEVEMENT;

BODY MASS INDEX; FACIAL FEATURES; SPORTS ACHIEVEMENT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BASEBALL; FACE; HUMANS;

EID: 84947737464     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0538     Document Type: Note

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