CosBeauty Magazine #85
CosBeauty is the #BeautyAddict's guide to lifestyle, health and beauty in Australia. In this issue: - The Breast Report - your guide to augmentation - Put an end to bad hair days - 24 hour makeup, products that last - Sex appeal - do you have it?
CosBeauty is the #BeautyAddict's guide to lifestyle, health and beauty in Australia.
In this issue:
- The Breast Report - your guide to augmentation
- Put an end to bad hair days
- 24 hour makeup, products that last
- Sex appeal - do you have it?
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
feature<br />
attraction is a youthful appearance,<br />
which is linked to reproductive<br />
capacity. In humans, mate ‘value’<br />
therefore declines with age, beginning<br />
in early adulthood. It follows, then,<br />
that we are naturally inclined to<br />
enhance our appearance.<br />
But what attracts a man to a<br />
woman fundamentally differs<br />
from what women seek in a male<br />
partner. ‘In virtually all of the<br />
human populations sampled, males<br />
rated physical attractiveness<br />
(usually associated with youth)<br />
significantly more important in<br />
mate choice than females did,’<br />
says Australian evolutionary<br />
anthropologist Sean McBride.<br />
‘Females, by contrast, mostly rated<br />
earning potential and ambition-cumindustriousness<br />
as more important<br />
factors when choosing a mate.’ In<br />
other words, the attractiveness of the<br />
man is directly linked to his skills and<br />
prowess rather than his looks.<br />
‘An evolutionary perspective<br />
on human behaviour suggests that<br />
human beings, like members of other<br />
animal species, are likely to have<br />
adaptations for assessing the “value”