Posted on 08/23/2007 2:32:03 PM PDT by 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.
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Wow, that guy gets me excited. Does he come equipped with a huge loincloth?
For what it’s worth? The Highlander movies and the TV series were MacLeods. Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul), of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, in the TV series was the cousin/clansman to the main character from the movies, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert). There can be only one!
Explains everything! My husband has a caveman look. he’ll be thrilled to know this. BTW, women are always flirting with him or flashing him when he’s working.
Yeah....*swoooon*
You know what? I bet she is the boss in the family.
Since, in profile, he looks like he is missing his frontal lobe, I bet she is...
That 'splains wimmin's amazing outrageous attraction to me!
Now go back and read my tag line on that post.
She was annoying, but I really like that film. Pitt’s character was great, though. Just make sure you bring him Lucky Lager.
Not me.
“Boxer Nikolai Valuev.”
Man. That is one dude I do not want to offend.
You only pinged me so that I'd tell you that you're adorable.
Which you are, although to define it on a scale of one to ten would take time for study and analysis.
that boxer plays with legos?
You want more?! I got more!
Say you want more...you know you do...
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