Facialmetric similarities mediate mate choice: sexual imprinting on opposite-sex parents
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Facialmetric similarities mediate mate choice: sexual imprinting on opposite-sex parents.
Former studies have suggested that imprinting-like processes influence the shaping of human mate preferences. In this study, we provide more direct evidence for assessing facial resemblance between subjects' partner and subjects' parents. Fourteen facial proportions were measured on 312 adults belonging to 52 families, and the correlations between family members were compared with those of pair...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1774