Psychological perspective on human developmental stability and fluctuating asymmetry: sources, applications and implications.
In recent years researchers from diverse disciplines in the life sciences have turned their attention to the issue of developmental stability in the organism. Their key measure, fluctuating asymmetry (FA), is defined as the random, stress-induced deviations from perfect symmetry that develop during...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 92; no. 3; pp. 447 - 470 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
August 2001
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