Beauty is laid before birth

Why some people are beautiful, and others do not? Why we are located in an attractive appearance to people? This question tried to answer the American psychologists.

Researchers from the United States found that the reason for our attitude to beautiful people It is antioxidants and oxidative stress. The experiments showed that the most beautiful, according to women, men have the lowest levels of markers oxidative stress in the body.

The best-known evolutionary hypothesis reasons for the popularity of beautiful people claim that we prefer the attractive features of appearance to distinguish physically strong partner of the weak. It laid genetically. The researchers also found that beautiful people have symmetrical facial features. This fact is also not accidental - the so-called fluctuation asymmetry   parts of the body indicates the developmental defects.

A possible reason for the fluctuation Asymmetry   It is oxidative stress . The fruit of his experiences during fetal development. Stress is caused by free radicals and antioxidants deficiency. As a result, it suffers from human DNA. In the most serious cases, this leads to mutations.

Psychologists from the University of New Mexico conducted the following experiment. They identified symptoms oxidative stress in men aged 18-38 years, then a group of women were asked to rate the attractiveness of foreign participants from photographs. Women selected men with much lower levels of oxidative stress. This was convincing proof version scientists.

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