Study: Men With 'Cavemen' Faces Most Attractive to Women

Fox News ^ | Thursday, August 23, 2007 | Jeanna Bryner

[jmcenanly]

Guys with bulldog-like faces have been chick magnets throughout human evolutionary history.

A recent study of the skulls of human ancestors and modern humans finds that women, and thereby evolution, selected for males with relatively short upper faces.

The region between the brow and the upper-lip is scrunched proportionately to the overall size of their heads.

Among the men who fit the bill: Will Smith and Brad Pitt.

In a past study, researchers found a similar facial pattern in chimpanzees, with males having relatively shorter and broader faces compared with females, controlling for body size.

Men with "mini mugs" might have been most attractive to the opposite sex and thus most likely to attract mates for reproduction, passing along the striking features to the next generation and so forth, said lead study author Eleanor Weston, a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum in London.

[jmcenanly]

I don't know about those chronic complainers from GEICO, but this may explain why Rupert Grint is so popular.

[Dante3]

Brad Pitt looks like a wimp to me - just not attractive.

[Lucky9teen]

Uh...not me..

[Nathan Zachary]

I don’t think it’s the LOOK that is what women like, it’s the promise of that rough around the edges looking guy being a little more aggressive in bed, a good solid romp, compared to the “Nancey boy”, and the “touchy feely” tender little “poke”.

women like SEX, not a tea party.

[A_perfect_lady]

I thought just last month there was a study that suggested that women prefer girlie-looking metrosexuals...?

[SIDENET]

Guys with bulldog-like faces have been chick magnets throughout human evolutionary history.

I've actually heard some gals talking about some ugly guys being attractive.

Their terms were "ugly-sexy" as oppsed to just "ugly-ugly".

Lady FReepers, is there any truth to this?

[Lizavetta]

Yes.

[stormer]

You apparently haven't seen "Kalifornia".

[Nathan Zachary]

Yes, but to those “women”, that meant their butch Lesbo partner.

[aruanan]

I thought a recent study found that women found attractive men who looked like women. Does this mean that cavemen looked like women?

[Jaysun]

Confidence works well.

[GunRunner]

[ari-freedom]

ok ladies feast your eyes on this hot stud:

[mojito]

If you believe in “studies,” you will believe in anything.

[Jaysun]

I’ve heard that it’s the same guy by the way. The guy on the left and the guy on the right are one and the same. I don’t know if there’s any truth to it.

Everywhere I go......
There’s always something to remind me......
Of another place and time.....

I sing it in the shower every morning.

[SIDENET]

Thanks. Good to know.

[RockinRight]

women like SEX, not a tea party.

They do??

;-)

[SkyDancer]

Ahh, hmmm, thinking .... thinking .... thinking .....

[Jaysun]

Oh - and I read in Reader’s Digest that ABC (I think) is coming out with a show featuring the Geico cavemen.