“美”的生物学意义

• 作 者: W·S·约翰斯顿
• 机 构: 美
• 出 处: 中国青年科技
• 发表日期: 2003年06期
• 关键词: 美容业 脸部特征 标准生长曲线 理论推断 环境信号 人体美 希尔 体态匀称 性选择 对称对

人类对于美貌的追求悠远流长,早已成为人类文明的组成部分。尽管先人曾留下了诸如“情人眼里出西施”、“美貌浮于表”等不少的文化古训,但仍有许多人为了让外貌好看一点,不惜耗费大量的时间、精力、金钱乃至忍受痛楚去美容,致使当今的美容业成为拥有数以亿计美元产值的世界性行业。同样,人类的许多活动也还受到形体吸引力的影响。整个广告业就是极具代表性的一例——利用有吸引力的人去引诱其他人购买某种商品,且也确实行之有效。

The pursuit of beauty for mankind has a long history and has long been an integral part of human civilization. Although the ancestors had left a lot of cultural heritages such as “the sweethearts come out with the beauty” and “beauty floats in the table”, there are still many people who spend a lot of time, energy, money and even Endure the pain to the beauty, resulting in today’s beauty industry has become the world’s industry with hundreds of millions of dollars in output value. Similarly, many human activities are also influenced by physical attractiveness. The entire advertising industry is a very representative example - using attractive people to lure others to buy a certain product, and it does work.