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Worldwide Survey To Arrive At Ideal Concept Of Beauty
"The highly idealised body images we see depicted so often in fashion and advertising are a far cry from the reality of the way most of us actually look," says Professor Rob Brooks, Director of the Evolution & Ecology Research Centre at The University of New South Wales.
"Yet it's obvious that people with so-called average bodies have no trouble attracting a mate: what we're trying to find out is what people really find attractive about all kinds of human body shapes and sizes, not just those high-paid and highly stylised size-8 fashion models."
The researchers are seeking volunteers to help in the project, and they're seeking women in particular to take part in a unique online experiment at a specially created website - http://www.bodylab.biz/
Anyone can go online and make their own ratings of computer-generated images of men and women of greatly varying shapes, sizes and proportions. The images are produced with the same sophisticated software used in computer games and by fashion designers to create human avatars.
So far, almost 40,000 people from around the world have taken part. The bodyLab team is analysing and compiling the results and, each month or so, they will use the half of the images that visitors find most attractive, and virtually "breed" new body shapes, introducing new variation into the experiment in just the same way mutations introduce new genetic variation into a population, says Professor Brooks.
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