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   All humans involved to find certain female traits attractive across cultures because they signal a potential mate's reproductive potential. Right, Actually, a new study finds that cultural norms can also play a big part at least when it comes to big feet.Once women give birth, their feet tend to grow larger, which means small feet are markers for youth and futility1 and thus should be universally attractive. A previous study did find a wide spread small foot preference, but university of Washington anthropologist2 Geoff Kushnick tested the hypothesis again among rural indonesians called the KaroBatak. when 159 men and women looked at a series of female figures, identical except for subtly different foot sizes. Surprisingly the KaroBatak rated the image with the largest feet, the most attractive , the work is in the journal human nature. Among the KaroBatak and other rural societies with low exposure to media. Large feet are signs of a woman's strength and ability to agricultural work. This cultural big for bias3 contradicts the notion of universal ideal's beauty. Attractiveness is not one-size-fits-all.


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1 futility IznyJ     
n.无用
参考例句:
  • She could see the utter futility of trying to protest. 她明白抗议是完全无用的。
  • The sheer futility of it all exasperates her. 它毫无用处,这让她很生气。
2 anthropologist YzgzPk     
n.人类学家,人类学者
参考例句:
  • The lecturer is an anthropologist.这位讲师是人类学家。
  • The anthropologist unearthed the skull of an ancient human at the site.人类学家在这个遗址挖掘出那块古人类的颅骨。
3 bias 0QByQ     
n.偏见,偏心,偏袒;vt.使有偏见
参考例句:
  • They are accusing the teacher of political bias in his marking.他们在指控那名教师打分数有政治偏见。
  • He had a bias toward the plan.他对这项计划有偏见。

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