The Biology of Beauty

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They are wrong. Afaik, the accepted version almost everywhere is an interaction effect. Biological bias towards some forms of beauty adjusted by culture.

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yeah, generally things, at least for women, like narrower chins, bigger breasts (a few hundred thousand years ago buoyancy was a survival necessity), and other things we find attractive in women were at one point necessary to survival or inidicative of more estrogen/fertility. a lot of these things are vestigial and dont really apply to life anymore, but these are built in things.

some of these evolved culturally though, there was a time when fat people were attractive because that was a sign of wealth and affluence. a main difference is that evolutionary attractions stick around whereas cultural ones tend to go away as soon as they are irrelevent.