If we one day will know that some freak mutation made the human insanity and exploration thing possible, it will be amazing to think that it was this little inversion on this chromosome that made all this happen and changed the whole ecosystem of the planet and made us dominate everything. In the spring of , I had occasion to interrogate a visiting houseguest, an evolutionary anthropologist who was preparing at her laptop computer several PowerPoint presentations dealing with the art and artifacts of early hominins. From my own readings over the past few years I was intrigued and puzzled by our long-term transformation from those craggy, hairy, apelike apes into us, the refined and beautiful Homo sapiens apes of today. She happened to have on hand one of Robert G. My interest was piqued. To complicate matters—but ultimately to enrich them—the announcement of Daniel E. Do dogs find us beautiful?

The sexiness of facial symmetry across cultures and species



Golden Ratio, Beauty and Design - It's time to 'face' the facts
Golden ratio facial analysis of Julia Calderone. In October , Dr. Professor Devlin is a accomplished Ph. His comments have reach and impact, but his views on the golden ratio are not always accurate, complete, consistent, objective or supported by evidence.


How We Became So Beautiful and Bright: Deep History and Evolutionary Anthropology
Golden ratio facial analysis of Julia Calderone. In October , Dr. Professor Devlin is a accomplished Ph.



Male facial attractiveness: evidence for hormone-mediated adaptive design. Victor S. Experimenters examining male facial attractiveness have concluded that the attractive male face is 1 an average male face, 2 a masculinized male face, or 3 a feminized male face. Others have proposed that symmetry, hormone markers, and the menstrual phase of the observer are important variables that influence male attractiveness. This study was designed to resolve these issues by examining the facial preferences of 42 female volunteers at two different phases of their menstrual cycle.