Here's a self-test from
an article in New Scientist that explores the strange world of sexual selection:
Which face is more attractive? If you chose the face on the left, you share the tastes of most heterosexual men. It is a composite face, or "morph", made from the faces of eight women with unusually small feet. The face on the right is a morph of eight women with unusually large feet.
It's quite a difference, isn't it? Women with smaller feet have prettier faces, at least according to the men who took part in this study. So do women with longer thigh bones and narrower hips, as well as women who are taller overall. And the contest isn't even a close one. "These are the most strikingly different morphs I've ever seen," says Jeremy Atkinson, an evolutionary psychologist at the University at Albany, New York.
Go read the article to learn more strange preferences by men and women. Funny, I wouldn't have considered this, but with a bit of science you can uncover these strange sexual selection pressures in the mating game.
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