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Evolution: Men Like Women With Small Feet Because…

For most men, women with small feet look dainty and cute, while women with big feet tend to look clumsy or ungraceful. But what if the feet were covered by shoes, will men will prefer women with small feet even though they can’t see the feet with their own eyes?

Apparently, yes. An interesting study by evolutionary psychologists discovered that for men, women with smaller feet have prettier faces:

Atkinson and his colleague Michelle Rowe measured hand length, foot length, thigh length and hip width on 60 white female college students, then adjusted each measurement to account for individual differences in overall height. For each of 16 body-part measurements, they selected the eight women with the shortest lengths and the eight with the longest, and constructed morphs of their faces. These morphs were then rated for attractiveness by 77 heterosexual male students.

The men were three-and-a-half times as likely to pick the short-footed morph as more attractive, and almost 10 times as likely to say it was more feminine, Atkinson and Rowe found.

Similarly, they were more than 11 times as likely to pick the narrow-hipped morph as more attractive, and eight times as likely to choose the long-thighed morph..

Atkinson goes on to suggest that the features of having long thighs, narrow hips and small feet indicate that one has a healthy childhood. Poor stress and nutrition being causes of short or stunted growth.

The ability to predict the size of the feet just by looking at the face is fascinating. And its because our faces and bodies are shaped by the same hormones.

I can understand the part about longer thigh bones and smaller feet but narrow hips? I always thought that according to evolutionary science, human males were drawn to females with a certain hip to waist ratio with big hips being a sure sign of fertility and sexual vigor.

http://slorker.com/evolution-men-like-women-with-small-feet-because/