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。
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