Attractive Skin Coloration: Harnessing Sexual Selection to Improve Diet and Health
In this paper we review the mechanisms through which carotenoid coloration could provide a sexually selected cue to condition in species with elaborate color vision. Skin carotenoid pigmentation induced by fruit and vegetable consumption may provide a similar cue to health in humans (particularly li...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491201000507 |