Dancing advertises sexual quality
Study of Jamaicans shows symmetrical dancers shake it better.

Michael Hopkin / news@nature.com

To generate the dancing figures, the researchers placed 41 reflective markers at strategic points on the dancers' bodies.
Infra-red cameras were then used to detect the reflections from eight infra-red beams, and the resulting data were used to recreate the dance using an androgynous computer-generated figure.

credit: W. Brown, Rutgers University

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