Associations of physical strength with facial shape in an African pastoralist society, the Maasai of Northern Tanzania

OBJECTIVES: Previous research has documented associations of physical strength and facial morphology predominantly in men of Western societies. Faces of strong men tend to be more robust, are rounder and have a prominent jawline compared with faces of weak men. Here, we investigate whether the morph...

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Autores principales: Butovskaya, Marina L., Windhager, Sonja, Karelin, Dimitri, Mezentseva, Anna, Schaefer, Katrin, Fink, Bernhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5978875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29852024
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197738