Second to fourth digit ratio in elite musicians: Evidence for musical ability as an honest signal of male fitness

By Vanessa A.Sluming M.Sc, J. Manning. 2000

101 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Genetics, Molecular Biology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/370b523b6aa2ccfeea74d295810c1d1e7ed60cc5

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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2. Nick Neave

In Genetics

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2. Nick Neave
3. J. Manning

In Molecular Biology

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2. Nick Neave
3. J. Manning

Citations in the corpus

• Voxel-Based Morphometry Reveals Increased Gray Matter Density in Broca's Area in Male Symphony Orchestra Musicians (2002, background): “From an evolutionary viewpoint, it has been suggested, originally by Darwin (1871), that musical performance is a sexually selected trait with no associated survival benefit at the level of the individual in that music performance appears to have no adaptive value in surviving predation or infection”
• Second to fourth digit ratio and the 'big five' personality factors (2004, background): “…population (Manning, Baron-Cohen, Wheelwright, & Sanders, 2001), whilst a study of male musicians in a British symphony orchestra showed that members had lower digit ratios than controls, with high-ranking players having lower values than their low-ranking colleagues (Sluming & Manning, 2000).”