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Dance reveals symmetry especially in young men.

Nature - 22 Dec 2005

Brown William M, Cronk Lee, Grochow Keith, Jacobson Amy, Liu C Karen, Popović Zoran, Trivers Robert

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Dance is believed to be important in the courtship of a variety of species, including humans, but nothing is known about what dance reveals about the underlying phenotypic--or genotypic--quality of the dancer. One measure of quality in evolutionary studies is the degree of bodily symmetry (fluctuating asymmetry, FA), because it measures developmental stability. Does dance quality reveal FA to the observer and is...

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PMID: 16372008
DOI: 10.1038/nature04344

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