May 18, 2018 11:23 PM
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/w...-his-limbs
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien...52976.html
EXCERPT: A man may be attractive because of his curly, blond hair or slick pin-striped suit, but strip everything away and one luring—maybe evolutionary—piece remains, a new study finds: how proportional his body is, especially his legs. Women prefer a man with legs that are about half his height, according to previous research; scientists believe that is an evolutionary result of women wanting to choose only healthy men. Legs that are too short, for example, have been linked to type 2 diabetes. [...] But they must not be too long, just a little longer than average, because being lanky offers males no advantage in dating, the study said [...] The scientists from Cambridge University tested the attractiveness of different limb proportions by asking 341 American women to give computer-generated male figures marks out of seven....
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien...52976.html
EXCERPT: A man may be attractive because of his curly, blond hair or slick pin-striped suit, but strip everything away and one luring—maybe evolutionary—piece remains, a new study finds: how proportional his body is, especially his legs. Women prefer a man with legs that are about half his height, according to previous research; scientists believe that is an evolutionary result of women wanting to choose only healthy men. Legs that are too short, for example, have been linked to type 2 diabetes. [...] But they must not be too long, just a little longer than average, because being lanky offers males no advantage in dating, the study said [...] The scientists from Cambridge University tested the attractiveness of different limb proportions by asking 341 American women to give computer-generated male figures marks out of seven....
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