Human Evolution
Whatever your standpoint it is a beautiful thing so here. Children, please don't trash it.
'Men with wide jaws, flared cheeks and large eyebrows were considered as sexy in the eyes of our female ancestors as they are today. Studies of fossils of our primate ancestors by reasearchers at University College London (UCL) and University of Cambridge showed that ancient ladies (sic!) helped to shape evolution by choosing sexual partners with those facial traits.
"The evolution of facial appearance is central to understanding what makes men and women attractive to each other today," says palaeontologist Dr Eleanor Weston of UCL. "If you characterise masculinity by the simple ratio of dividing upper facial height by facial breadth, then attractive film stars do exhibit quite low ratios."
Unlike other facial features, this difference cannot simply be explained in terms of men growing larger than women. The researchers also found a similar development in the chimpanzee male face. " This does support our findings in that this facial difference occuring at puberty must have important evolutionary implication, " says Weston....'
BBC Focus magazine
http://tinyurl.com/2napsu
Whatever your standpoint it is a beautiful thing so here. Children, please don't trash it.
'Men with wide jaws, flared cheeks and large eyebrows were considered as sexy in the eyes of our female ancestors as they are today. Studies of fossils of our primate ancestors by reasearchers at University College London (UCL) and University of Cambridge showed that ancient ladies (sic!) helped to shape evolution by choosing sexual partners with those facial traits.
"The evolution of facial appearance is central to understanding what makes men and women attractive to each other today," says palaeontologist Dr Eleanor Weston of UCL. "If you characterise masculinity by the simple ratio of dividing upper facial height by facial breadth, then attractive film stars do exhibit quite low ratios."
Unlike other facial features, this difference cannot simply be explained in terms of men growing larger than women. The researchers also found a similar development in the chimpanzee male face. " This does support our findings in that this facial difference occuring at puberty must have important evolutionary implication, " says Weston....'
BBC Focus magazine
http://tinyurl.com/2napsu