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 If winning is everything, British anthropologists have some advice:
Wear red.
Their survey of four sports at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens shows competitors
were more likely to win their contests if they wore red uniforms or red
body armor.
"Across a range of sports, we find that wearing red is consistently
associated with a higher probability of winning," report Russell A.
Hill and Robert A. Barton of the University of Durham in England. Their
findings
are in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.
Red coloration is associated with aggression in many animals. Often it
is sexually selected so that scarlet markings signal male dominance.
Just think of the red stripes on the scowling face of the male Mandrill,
Africa’s largest monkey species. But red is not exclusively a male trait.
It’s the female black widow spider that is venomous and displays a menacing
red dot on her abdomen.
Go, Crimson!
from the Associated Press
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