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Is the human face a biomarker of health? – a scoping review

2025-01-15

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There is a widespread opinion that facial features could provide an important cue to individual’s health and are a biomarker of a human developmental stability. Taking evolutionary lens, they are interpreted to be a signal physical and cognitive health. However, research to date does not clearly support this assumption. This is the first review that explores the association between various aspects of health and fa...

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Literature Corpus work: a398692f-26d5-55e0-ba3d-d7fcf3b8d73a
DOI: 10.1101/2025.01.14.25320526

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