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<b>THE BIOLOGY OF BEAUTY<b>

  
  
  

 

Throughout the animal world, attractiveness certifies biological quality. Is our corner of the animal world different?

That looks play a very significant part in human affairs is beyond dispute. Studies have shown that people considered attractive fare better with parents and teachers, make more friends and have better sex with more (and more beautiful) partners.  

Beautiful people are not just pleasing on the eye: it seems they are also wealthier, more successful and much easier to get on with.  Good-looking, slim, tall people tend to make more money than their plain-Jane counterparts, according to numerous studies. This "beauty premium" exists across all occupations, and jobs requiring more interpersonal contact have higher percentages of above-average-looking employees.

The ideals of beauty might vary from era to era and from culture to culture; but people everywhere –regardless of race, class or age – share a sense of what is attractive.  

Some attributes of attraction of course vary: rolls of fat can signal high status in a poor society or low status in a rich one. But local fashions seem to rest on a bedrock of shared preferences – Western movies and magazines have overrun the world.

Even children spend more time gazing at pictures of “attractive” faces than at “unattractive” ones… and these kids don’t read Vogue or watch TV.

 

So what is beauty made of? What are the innate rules we follow?

We are obviously attracted to healthy people. As far as anyone knows, there isn’t a village on earth where skin lesions, head lice and rotting teeth count as beauty aids.

But the rules can get subtler that that. For instance, we love symmetry – the extent to which a creature’s right and left sides match. Given ideal growing conditions, paired features such as ears, eyes, hand and feet would come out matching perfectly. But pollution, disease and other hazards can disrupt development. As a result, the least resilient individuals tend to be the most lopsided. 

Defining a universal standard of body beauty seems difficult. But if our ideals of size change from one time and place to the next, our taste in shapes is amazingly stable.

barbie doll in blackA low waist-hip ratio is one of the few features that a Barbie doll shares with a primitive icon. Small wonder that when women were liberated from corsets and bustles, they took up girdles, wide belts and other waist-reducing contraptions.

We are preprogramed to care about looks, even though looks aren’t earned and reveal nothing about character. We wear our imperfections as thorns, for we know the world sees them and takes notes.

Sexual stereotypes are not strictly artificial.

At some level, it seems, women are designed to favor dominant males over meek ones, and men are designed to value women for youthful qualities that time quickly steals.  This male preference for younger women seems to be universal across cultures.  

Studies show that there is actually a biological reason for this preference of youthful women -- it boosts the evolutionary success.  Both men and women have more children when the father is a few years older than the mother, according to research suggesting that natural selection has driven each gender’s age preferences in mutually compatible ways.

 Of course, human beings cannot be reduced to DNA packets and no one claims that people are mindless automatons, blindly striving to replicate their genes.

We pursue countless passions that have no direct bearing on survival. The beauty mavens’ mission is not to explain everything people do but to unmask our biases and make sense of them.

Our minds have evolved to generate pleasurable experiences in response to some things while ignoring others. That’s why sugar tastes sweet, and that’s why we find some people more attractive than others.

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<b>AN ELIXIR OF EMOTIONS, SEX IS A BEAUTY TREATMENT</b>

  
  
  

Do you know that .... People who make love 3 times a week look between 4 and 7 years younger !!

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