Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness and sexual selection: the role of symmetry and averageness.

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  1994

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  Journal of Comparative Psychology

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  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/0735-7036.108.3.233PMID 7924253
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