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Mobile phones as lekking devices among human males
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This study investigated the use of mobile telephones by males and females in a public bar frequented by professional people. We found that, unlike women, men who possess mobile telephones more often publicly display them, and that these displays were related to the number of men in a social group, but not the number of women. This result was not due simply to a greater number of males who have telephones: we found an increase with male social group size in the proportion of available telephon...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Walter de Gruyter, Inc. Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Human Nature Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 93-104
- Publication date:
- 2000-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1936-4776
- ISSN:
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1045-6767
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:5117
- Deposit date:
- 2011-03-14
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- Copyright holder:
- Walter de Gruyter, Inc, New York
- Copyright date:
- 2000
- Notes:
- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but the original publication is available at springerlink.com (which you may be able to access via the publisher copy link on this record page). Citation: Lycett, J. E. & Dunbar, R. I. M. (2000). 'Mobile phones as lekking devices among human males', Human Nature 11(1), 93-104. N.B. Prof Dunbar is now based at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
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