Cosmetics as a feature of the extended human phenotype: modulation of the perception of biologically important facial signals.

Research on the perception of faces has focused on the size, shape, and configuration of inherited features or the biological phenotype, and largely ignored the effects of adornment, or the extended phenotype. Research on the evolution of signaling has shown that animals frequently alter visual feat...

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Main Authors: Nancy L Etcoff, Shannon Stock, Lauren E Haley, Sarah A Vickery, David M House
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21991328/pdf/?tool=EBI