Why Symmetry Predicts Bodily Attractiveness

an explanation for the correlation between attractiveness and bodily characteristics like height, breast size, long legs, broad shoulders or a curvy figure.

The study also explored the degree of asymmetries between the left and right sides of the body, which is widely believed to be an indirect measure of developmental quality in many species including humans.

Using Brunel’s high-tech 3D optical body scanner to accurately measure human body proportions, the study was the first of its kind.

identified a property dubbed ‘body masculinity’, a mathematical fusion of traits including greater height, wider shoulders, smaller breasts and shorter legs.

When asked to assess the attractiveness of female 3D body images, men rated those with less body masculinity most attractive, and vice versa

good development and health may have bodies that exaggerate sex-typical bodily features.

prospect as a mate who will yield higher quality offspring for the chooser