Leg length, proportion, health and beauty: a review.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Anthropologischer Anzeiger; Bericht uber die biologisch-anthropologische Literatur

• Publication date

  2009-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1127/0003-5548/2009/0036PMID 20440962
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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