author. Dr. Brown and
another coauthor of this same Nature paper (Dr. Cronk), have denied these charges in a written
rebuttal (Brown and Cronk, 2009). The research in question ... Trivers, Palestis and Zaatari (2009) and
the rebuttal of Drs. Brown and Cronk (2009), more than 10 subjects were
eligible to be included in three of the above four groups ... misconduct.
4. There are also claims in the rebuttal of Drs. Brown and Cronk (2009) that
persons with what was deemed to be "poor dancing tape quality" were
excluded from