Faces Of Our Ancestors

[Confused Ape]

The ape men with the slightly less ugly face would have had a slightly greater chance of attracting a mate.

(Edited addition) We're apes, not peacocks. We share a common ancestor with chimpanzees.

Do Chimps Have A New Mate Every Year?

All the males in a community (group of chimpanzees that live in an area of forest though they don't always all travel together) will mate with each female when she is fertile. This way, any of them could be the offspring's father so none of them will kill the infant. The more dominant males tend to mate the closest to ovulation and therefore they father most of the babies.

If our hominid ancestors were like that, good looks wouldn't have come into it. The most dominant male in the group could have had the ugliest face but he'd still have fathered the most offspring.

Modern humans are inconsistent creatures because we have fashion trends where beauty ideals are concerned. When I was growing up in the 1950's curvy women with big breasts were the beauty ideal.

Jaynne Mansfield Anatomy

Because of her striking figure, newspapers in the 1950s routinely published her body measurements, which once led to evangelist Billy Graham exclaiming, "This country knows more about Jayne Mansfield's statistics than the Second Commandment."[5] Mansfield claimed a 41-inch bust line and a 22-inch waist when she made her Broadway debut in 1955, though some scholars dispute those figures.[285] She came to be known as "the Cleavage Queen" and "the Queen of Sex and Bosom".[297] Mansfield's breasts fluctuated in size, it was said, from her pregnancies and nursing her five children. Her smallest measurement was 40D (102 cm), which was constant throughout the 1950s, and her largest was 46DD (117 cm), measured by the press in 1967.[298] According to Playboy, her vital statistics were 40D-21-36 (102-53-91 cm) on her 5'6" (1.68 m) frame.[43] According to her autopsy report, she was 5'8" (1.73 m).[citation needed]

It has been claimed that her bosom was a major force behind the development of the 1950s brassieres, including the "Whirlpool bra", Cuties, the "Shutter bra", the "Action bra", latex pads, cleavage-revealing designs and uplift outline.[299][300] R. L. Rutsky[301] and Bill Osgerby[302] have claimed that it was Mansfield, along with Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot, who made the bikini popular. Drawing on the Freudian concept of fetishism, British science fiction writer and socio-cultural commentator J. G. Ballard commented that Mae West, Mansfield and Monroe's breasts "loomed across the horizon of popular consciousness."[303] But, as the 1960s approached, according to Dave Kehr, the anatomy that had made her a star turned her into a joke.[285] In this decade, the female body ideal shifted to appreciate the slim waif-like features popularized by supermodel Twiggy, actress Audrey Hepburn and other, demarcating the demise of the busty blonde bombshells.[280][304][305]

It was tough being a female adolescent in those days. We started out hoping we wouldn't be flat chested until Twiggy was all the rage - we then ended up hoping our vital statistics wouldn't be any bigger than 32-23-32.

There are changing beauty ideals for human males as well from the female perspective. In reality, however, most people don't manage to live up to whatever ideal happens to be in fashion but they still manage to find partners and reproduce.

If you want to waste a few minutes just do google searches for things like European men/women ugly and then substitute French/German/Russian/Greek/Australian Aborigenes etc etc for Europeans.