• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Sweet FA: The trouble with fluctuating asymmetry
  • Contributor: Montgomerie, Robert
  • Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2000
  • Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (2000) 4, Seite 616-617
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x00563377
  • ISSN: 0140-525X; 1469-1825
  • Keywords: Behavioral Neuroscience ; Physiology ; Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
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  • Description: <jats:p>Studies of fluctuating asymmetry (FA) in relation to sexual strategies in humans provide the empirical basis for many arguments in support of good genes sexual selection theory. Many FA studies, however, are flawed by bias in experimental design, inconsistent statistical analysis, and the sloppy handling of data.</jats:p>