>
> The Big Irony: Why Modern Men Are Fooled
>
> So men like women who look like blonde bombshells, or Barbie, and
> women want to look like them, because each of their key features
> (youth, long hair, small waist, large breasts, blonde hair, and blue
> eyes) is an indicator of youth and thus of health, reproductive value,
> and fertility. There is precise evolutionary logic behind the image of
> ideal female beauty. By now, astute readers may have caught on to the
> irony of it all. None of what we have said above is true any longer.
> Through face-lifts, wigs, liposuction, surgical breast augmentation,
> hair dye, and color contact lenses, any woman-regardless of age—can
> have many of the key features that define the ideal female beauty.
> Very little of Pamela Anderson's appearance is natural. A 40-year-old
> woman today can rely on modern technology to continue to look like a
> 20-year-old woman. Farrah Fawcett at 60 looks better than most
> "normal" women half her age.
>
> And men fall for them. As the Savanna Principle suggests, their brains
> cannot really comprehend silicone breasts or blonde hair dye, because
> these things did not exist in the ancestral environment ten thousand
> years ago. Men can cognitively understand that many blonde women with
> firm large breasts are not actually 15 years old, but they still find
> them attractive because their evolved psychological mechanisms are
> fooled by the modern inventions that did not exist in the ancestral
> environment.
>
> Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters
> From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a
> Billionaire-Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We
> Do.
> by Alan S. Miller (Author), Satoshi
Kanazawahttp://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-People-Have-More-Daughters/dp/0399533656
>
> The Savanna Principle is a theory about the evolutionary roots of the
> human brain. ...it asserts that the environment that molded the human
> brain through natural selection is drastically different than the
> world humans currently live in. This disparity between what man was
> designed to do and what he currently can do leads to a host of
> societal difficulties, according to the theory. For example, ancestors
> who craved sugary and fatty foods lived longer and were healthier than
> those who didn't, in a time that such things were relatively scarce.
> Today, the abundance of such temptations leads to obesity and heart
> disease.
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna_principle
