The importance of reporting the distributional criteria of FA

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (4):623-624 (2000)
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Not all of the studies cited in the target article as evidence that fluctuating asymmetry (FA) predicts male mating success demonstrate that the observed asymmetry is, in fact, FA. FA is a population-level pattern of differences between sides. Unless the population-level distributional criteria of bilateral traits are reported, the meaning of asymmetry in individuals is unknown.

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10.1017/s0140525x00643376

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