美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-06-18
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(六)月
All humans involved to find certain female traits attractive across cultures because they signal a potential mate's reproductive potential. Right, Actually, a new study finds that cultural norms can also 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 are markers for youth and futility 1 and thus should be universally attractive. A previous study did find a wide spread small foot preference, but university of Washington anthropologist 2 Geoff Kushnick tested the hypothesis again among rural indonesians called the KaroBatak. when 159 men and women looked at a series of female figures, identical except for subtly different foot sizes. Surprisingly the KaroBatak rated the image with the largest feet, the most attractive , the work is in the journal human nature. Among the KaroBatak and other rural societies with low exposure to media. Large feet are signs of a woman's strength and ability to agricultural work. This cultural big for bias 3 contradicts the notion of universal ideal's beauty. Attractiveness is not one-size-fits-all.
- She could see the utter futility of trying to protest. 她明白抗议是完全无用的。
- The sheer futility of it all exasperates her. 它毫无用处，这让她很生气。
- 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。