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[[File:LaurenHanley.jpg|200px|thumb|Woman with a highly neotenous face despite having well-developed [[boobs|breasts]]]]'''Neoteny''' or '''pedomorphism''' refers to an adult organism retaining childlike features. In humans, this means a roundish, soft face with large eyes, short nose, full lips and clear skin, but also overall a shorter and weaker stature. Neoteny is a highly desirable trait in women and women are more neotenous than men in appearance, mentality and behavior (e.g. [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_cry_four_times_as_much_as_men_and_never_outgrow_teenage_crying_behavior|adult crying]]). Women use [[fakeup]] to enhance their neoteny by smoothing their skin and enhancing eye contrast.<ref>https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01208/full</ref> Compared to other mammals, humans are overall more neotenous as evidenced by their lack of fur, small teeth, smooth skin and large eyes,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny</ref> presumably as a result of self-domestication.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication</ref> | [[File:LaurenHanley.jpg|200px|thumb|Woman with a highly neotenous face despite having well-developed [[boobs|breasts]]]]'''Neoteny''' or '''pedomorphism''' refers to an adult organism retaining childlike features. In humans, this means a roundish, soft face with large eyes, short nose, full lips and clear skin, but also overall a shorter and weaker stature. Neoteny is a highly desirable trait in women and women are more neotenous than men in appearance, mentality and behavior (e.g. [[Scientific Blackpill (Supplemental)#Women_cry_four_times_as_much_as_men_and_never_outgrow_teenage_crying_behavior|adult crying]]). Women use [[fakeup]] to enhance their neoteny by smoothing their skin and enhancing eye contrast.<ref>https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01208/full</ref> Compared to other mammals, humans are overall more neotenous as evidenced by their lack of fur, small teeth, smooth skin and large eyes,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny</ref> presumably as a result of self-domestication.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication</ref> | ||
In men, neoteny can also be caused by [[pubefantilism]] (delayed puberty) and | In men, neoteny can also be caused by [[pubefantilism]] (delayed puberty) and negatively affect men's dating prospects ([[cutecel]]). A woman with neotenous features is referred to as a ''fauxbait''. | ||
Women's neoteny steeply declines in their twenties such that women's rate of aging is faster than men's, which is known as hitting [[the wall]].<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.23878</ref> A twentyfive year old woman will already have a less neotenous facial fat distribution and hence appear less sexually attractive than an eighteen year old woman. This preference can be seen in men's re- | Women's neoteny steeply declines in their twenties such that women's rate of aging is faster than men's, which is known as hitting [[the wall]].<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.23878</ref> A twentyfive year old woman will already have a less neotenous facial fat distribution and hence appear less sexually attractive than an eighteen year old woman. This preference can be seen in men's re-marriages: The age gap is three years at first marriage, five years at second marriage, and eight | ||
years at third marriage.<ref>Buss, 1994/2003</ref> | years at third marriage.<ref>Buss, 1994/2003</ref> | ||
== Sex differences in neoteny == | |||
A neotenous face is one with a high ratio of neurocranial to lower-facial features, while also exhibiting a small nose and ears and full lips.<ref name="jones95">https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1601&context=fchd_facpub</ref> Part of the neurocranial features is the eye region, and various animal babies have proportionally very large eyes. But while it is true, that men are more sexually attracted to women with larger eyes,<ref>Cunningham MR, Roberts AR, Barbee AP, Druen PB, Wu CH (1995). "Their ideas of beauty are, on the whole, the same as ours": consistency and variability in the cross-cultural perception of female physical attractiveness". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 68 (2): 261–79. doi:10.1037/0022-3514.68.2.261. S2CID 27778786.</ref> | |||
women's eyes are not actually larger than men's in absolute terms. | |||
Among Caucasians aged 20 to 40, men's eyes are actually slightly wider than women's eyes (28.7±1.9 mm vs 27.7±2 mm).<ref>https://www.facebase.org/facial_norms/summary/index.html#palpfislength_r</ref><ref>https://www.facebase.org/facial_norms/summary/index.html#palpfislength_l</ref> | |||
There is also no significant sex difference in exposed iris as a fraction of the overall eye area.<ref name="danel2020"></ref> | |||
However, due to women's smaller cranium, mandible and nasal size, women's eyes are proportionally slightly larger.<ref>https://www.facebase.org/facial_norms/summary/index.html#maxfacewidth</ref> Especially the nose is responsible for this effect, being very close to the eyes and on average around 12% smaller in women with a very large effect size of about d = 2. But since human cognition operates only on relative sizes, not absolute sizes, larger eyes have presumably the same effect on male attractiveness ratings as proportionally smaller noses. | |||
Rather than size, the more more substantial sex difference regarding the eyes is that women's eyes are ''rounder'' (d = .66 in terms of width-to-height ratio, which is a moderate effect size), and have less rectangular eye fissures, while men's appear wider and more rectangular like [[hunter eyes]].<ref name="danel2020">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-020-02894-1</ref> | |||
The other primary neotenous facial feature that women posess is their slightly underdeveloped lower-facial features, having around 10% lower facial depth (d = 2.0), i.e. a lower distance from the chin to the ears and less forward growth, owing to a shorter mandible, which is also narrower (d = 1.0).<ref>https://www.facebase.org/facial_norms/summary/#mandwidth</ref> The relationship between a small lower-facial features and men's attraction to it has also been empirically established cross-culturally.<ref name="jones95"></ref> | |||
Behaviorally, women also exhibit neotenous traits, in particular their higher rate of adult crying, counting 4 times as many crying episodes per unit time,<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_cry_four_times_as_much_as_men_and_never_outgrow_teenage_crying_behavior</ref> with there less immediate evidence of women finding such behavior outright sexually attractive, compared to womens facial neotenous features. Women also behave more childishly interacting with their female friends, as evidenced by them being less cooperative and [[female sneakiness|sneaky]].<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#tocTee-Hee</ref> | |||
Women's voice has a substantially higher fundamental frequency typically remaining at the vocal pitch of pre-pubescent boys.<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/hbm.20065</ref> | |||
== Evolution of female neoteny == | == Evolution of female neoteny == | ||