ANT211H5 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Mate Choice, Parental Investment
Document Summary
The psychology of attractiveness podcast, episode fertility & health: is beauty a cue?, touches on what makes certain humans appear attractive. The overall theme of this podcast episode is the idea that beautiful people are potentially healthier. This theme can be illuminated by looking at evolution. Thinking like an evolutionist allows us to clarify human experiences of today. Evolution shapes what we believe to be attractive as primitively, attractiveness was too seek healthy fertile partners. In picking a partner, the most healthy/fit (both male and female) would produce the more healthy/fit offspring and continue generations. Evolution has now changed into it being attractiveness, however; most beauty research claims that human attractiveness today is too based on health as it has always been. Beautiful people signal health through their clear skin, body structure, straight smiles etc. One way this was demonstrated in the podcast was through kai hiraishi study on men"s over- perception of sexual intent.
