Lack of support for the association between facial shape and aggression: a reappraisal based on a worldwide population genetics perspective
Antisocial and criminal behaviors are multifactorial traits whose interpretation relies on multiple disciplines. Since these interpretations may have social, moral and legal implications, a constant review of the evidence is necessary before any scientific claim is considered as truth. A recent stud...
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Antropología Ciencias Naturales aggression behaviorism cultural factor ethnography face profile population genetics reproductive success Continental Population Groups Regression Analysis |
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Antropología Ciencias Naturales aggression behaviorism cultural factor ethnography face profile population genetics reproductive success Continental Population Groups Regression Analysis Gómez Valdés, Jorge Hünemeier, Tábita Quinto Sánchez, Mirsha Paschetta, Carolina A. Azevedo, Soledad de González, Marina Fernanda Martínez Abadías, Neus Esparza, Mireia Pucciarelli, Héctor Mario Salzano, Francisco M. Bau, Claiton H. D. Bortolini, Maria Cátira González-José, Rolando Lack of support for the association between facial shape and aggression: a reappraisal based on a worldwide population genetics perspective |
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Antropología Ciencias Naturales aggression behaviorism cultural factor ethnography face profile population genetics reproductive success Continental Population Groups Regression Analysis |
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Antisocial and criminal behaviors are multifactorial traits whose interpretation relies on multiple disciplines. Since these interpretations may have social, moral and legal implications, a constant review of the evidence is necessary before any scientific claim is considered as truth. A recent study proposed that men with wider faces relative to facial height (fWHR) are more likely to develop unethical behaviour mediated by a psychological sense of power. This research was based on reports suggesting that sexual dimorphism and selection would be responsible for a correlation between fWHR and aggression. Here we show that 4,960 individuals from 94 modern human populations belonging to a vast array of genetic and cultural contexts do not display significant amounts of fWHR sexual dimorphism. Further analyses using populations with associated ethnographical records as well as samples of male prisoners of the Mexico City Federal Penitentiary condemned by crimes of variable level of inter-personal aggression (homicide, robbery, and minor faults) did not show significant evidence, suggesting that populations/individuals with higher levels of bellicosity, aggressive behaviour, or power-mediated behaviour display greater fWHR. Finally, a regression analysis of fWHR on individual's fitness showed no significant correlation between this facial trait and reproductive success. Overall, our results suggest that facial attributes are poor predictors of aggressive behaviour, or at least, that sexual selection was weak enough to leave a signal on patterns of between- and within-sex and population facial variation. |
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Articulo Articulo |
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Gómez Valdés, Jorge Hünemeier, Tábita Quinto Sánchez, Mirsha Paschetta, Carolina A. Azevedo, Soledad de González, Marina Fernanda Martínez Abadías, Neus Esparza, Mireia Pucciarelli, Héctor Mario Salzano, Francisco M. Bau, Claiton H. D. Bortolini, Maria Cátira González-José, Rolando |
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Gómez Valdés, Jorge Hünemeier, Tábita Quinto Sánchez, Mirsha Paschetta, Carolina A. Azevedo, Soledad de González, Marina Fernanda Martínez Abadías, Neus Esparza, Mireia Pucciarelli, Héctor Mario Salzano, Francisco M. Bau, Claiton H. D. Bortolini, Maria Cátira González-José, Rolando |
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Gómez Valdés, Jorge |
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Lack of support for the association between facial shape and aggression: a reappraisal based on a worldwide population genetics perspective |
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Lack of support for the association between facial shape and aggression: a reappraisal based on a worldwide population genetics perspective |
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Lack of support for the association between facial shape and aggression: a reappraisal based on a worldwide population genetics perspective |
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Lack of support for the association between facial shape and aggression: a reappraisal based on a worldwide population genetics perspective |
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Lack of support for the association between facial shape and aggression: a reappraisal based on a worldwide population genetics perspective |
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lack of support for the association between facial shape and aggression: a reappraisal based on a worldwide population genetics perspective |
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2013 |
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