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The researcher's findings provide support for the hypothesis that human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces are innate and hardwired in our 'lizard brain' that is, there is a deep-seated desire for such aesthetic features, and this desire even predates the evolution of modern humans, with the last common ancestor of humans and chickens [https://www.nature.com/news/2004/041206/full/041206-8.html thought] to have been a reptilian creature that lived more than 310 million years ago. | The researcher's findings provide support for the hypothesis that human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces are innate and hardwired in our 'lizard brain' that is, there is a deep-seated desire for such aesthetic features, and this desire even predates the evolution of modern humans, with the last common ancestor of humans and chickens [https://www.nature.com/news/2004/041206/full/041206-8.html thought] to have been a reptilian creature that lived more than 310 million years ago. | ||
The result strongly suggests that preferences for extremely masculine and feminine faces are not a cultural construct, but | The result strongly suggests that preferences for extremely masculine and feminine faces are not a cultural construct, but an inevitable preference emerging in biological brains. | ||
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