Gregg Carter wrote:
> Cross-cultural studies of beauty reveal two key findings:  (1) the most
> desirable women have a waist-to-hip ratio between .6 and .8; (2) the
> most desirable mate has symmetrical features (both body and face).

Rick Strong replied:
This is interesting and I have read it before;  One question I would raise is
whether the cross cultural studies are valid relative to prior epochs...
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Rick-- a basic premise of evolutionary theory is that adaptation takes
time. So one would think that (1) and (2) developed over the course of
many thousands of years and that they have been around for a very long
time.