Adiposity, compared to masculinity, serves as a more valid cue to immunocompetence in human mate choice
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Department of Biology, Section of Ecology, University of Turku, FI-20014, Turku, Finland Departments of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, 0028, Pretoria, South Africa School of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, United Kingdom Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, LV-540, Daugavpils, Latvia Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, 51014, Tartu, Estonia.
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Correction to 'Adiposity, compared to masculinity, serves as a more valid cue to immunocompetence in human mate choice'.
a more valid cue to immunocompetence in human mate choice'. Correction to 'Adiposity, compared to masculinity, serves as a more valid cue to immunocompetence in human mate choice' There were two minuses missing in the Results section of the original article. The correlation between circulating testosterone levels and body adiposity is negative (r 69 ¼ 20.54, p , 0.001), not positive as previous...
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