Experiments have been done to determine the biological basis of beautiful people, by inviting participants to choose between multiple photographs of faces and choosing their preference. (Facial features such as smaller noses, jawbones, and friendly faces were amongst the highest rated) Therefore, scientists wanted to create an experiment to breed the the shapes of faces, as well as seeing the correlations of a preferred face to how their general health, social well being and fertility are.
However, it is unethical to pair human beings for the sake of an experiment with a sperm and an egg. Locating men and women give birth and raise a child with a perceived bone structure may also be difficult, as the couple will have to get along to start with; existing couples also may look for traits in the partner other than face structures, making the choice of participants even more difficult...
Luckily, a similar experiment has been done with foxes. There was an experiment in 1959 done by a Russian geneticist called Dmitry Belyeav. His goal was to breed silver foxes, as to make them tamer and easier for the farmers to handle. Although his breeding was successful in making the foxes tamer and easier for the farmers to handle; he found out that the foxes developed patches of color, meanwhile their ears became floppy, their skulls became rounded and flattened, shorter foreheads stubbier noses and short jaws.
Dmitry Fox
A silver Fox
These newly breed foxes to wild foxes became what dogs are to wolves -- not fearful, nor aggressive. Scientists believe that the link was between these facial features and behavior traits, may be due to hormones. Hormones such as estradiol, and neurotransmitters such as serotonin may affect behavior and faces. A change in one may lead to a change in another.
This leads scientists to believe that Homo Sapiens (human beings) evolve to a friendlier face as homo sapiens are friendlier species and thus, a friendlier face would be more preferable, as it may be a marker of desirable social attributes.
Thus facial features seen in Belyeav Fox (flat face, small noses, reduced jaw and "high eyebrows"), were also similar to the traits that men find desirable in women.
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