时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(六)月


英语课
  This is Scientific America 60-second science, I'm Sophie Bushvick, got a minute?
  All humans evolve to find certain female traits attractive across cultures because the signal of potential means reproductive potential. Right?
  Actually a new study finds that cultural norms can 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 markers for use and fertility and not should be universally attractive. A previous study did find wide spread small foot preference. But University of Washington Anthropologist 1 Jack 2 Coshneck tested the hypothesis again. Among Indonesians called the Carobaltog, 159 men and women looked at a series of famale figures identical except for suddenly different foot sizes . Surprisingly, the Carobaltog rated the images with the largest feet the most attractive. The work is in the journal Human Nature. Among the Carobaltog and other rural societies with lower exposure to media, large feet are sighs of woman strength and ability to do agricultural work. This cultural big foot bias 3 contradicts the notion of universal ideas of beauty. Attractiveness is not one size fits all.

1 anthropologist
n.人类学家,人类学者
  • 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。
2 jack
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
3 bias
n.偏见,偏心,偏袒;vt.使有偏见
  • 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。
学英语单词
260
A. B. R.
accumulation of electric energy
acid absorber
ammonium hydrosulfide
Angelica cartilaginomarginata
Angised
annellidic
arteria labialis superiors
articles of co-partnership
atractylis macrocephala koidz.
badi
balanced-piston governor valve
bearing up pulley
behavioral potential
belladonna extract
bill-jobbing
bilo
bladder pipe
booster relay
bottle-openers
bowdlerizer
bryozoologist
calyptobranchiata
chain code following
chebulagic acid
clickers
cluster point of filter base
computational problem
congenital dactylus varus
conical fluidized bed
control circuit with prescribed overshoot
core lifter case
coupled model
crash-helmet
cuttest
debasers
decamillennial
decontextualizing
detect from
determination of vertical dimension
displacement head
Dworr
dyep
egregious folly
eligibility for tax credit
emblazoner
feather veined
fistula fenestration
forward-transfer signal
genus Melogale
geomagnetic coordinate
gray absorber rod
half-class
hammer blade mill
hardcards
hoisl pan
house service turbo generator
interracialist
ionogenic surfactant
jacquard grisaille
journal velocity
kebb
keygen
Massora, Massorah
Mazowieckie, Województwo
Mendelssohn Seamount
mental health promotion
Miguelópolis
modelling error
molecular link
Monocolpopollenites
nonlinear regression
number of weaned
over shipment
overatropinization
palmidrol
panel on complaints
permanent object
persistent irradiation
phantom bone disease
placidious
reactivity index
reversed brass
rod carrier
rule out the possibility of
saddle feathers
sales presentations
seed stand
shield hood
slowing-down model
snow mat
soldering by dipping
steeply-dipping
tetranitrocarbazole
trunk girth
Ukr.
verification center
virus crystal
waveguide electro-optic prism
yourfirstname
z-day