es. Voice : Voice quality is another candidate. Unfortunately there is not much research in this direction. Zuckermann and Driver showed attractiveness prototypes in voices. People tend to agree what an attractive voice is. Dark low male voices are rated attractive. The biological background for such an attractiveness rating might lie in the fact, that usually the size of the voice producing apparatus correlate with body size, which is sexual dimorphic and thus again prototypical for males. Age : Evolution would also instill an age preference. Human female fertility peaks in the early 20s, and so do assessments of female attractiveness. Between 1953 and 1990, the average age of playboy centerfold models was 21.3 years. Because men are fertile most of their adult lives, their attractiveness ratings remain relatively higher as their perceived age increases. Victor Johnson " our feelings of beauty are exceptionally well turned to the age of maximum fertility." Considerable evidence has accumulated in recent years supporting the hypothesis that both facial and bodily physical attractiveness are health certifications and thus represent honest signals of phenotypic and genetic quality. Ellis and Donald Symons first proposed by Westermarck and the hypothesis that beauty connotes health later. There is no doubt, regarding all these variables, that beauty or attractiveness, are cognitive constructs in the eye of the beholder. Thus beauty, its signal values and cognitive processes are interlinked to a high degree. The main aspect of my work presented here is the fact, that although different people might have different templates for beauty these templates underlie common construction principles. This also explains the high cultural and temporal variability of beauty standards. What we know is that mate selection criteria play a role in attractiveness ratings: females rate males as a...
