A good looking face or body shape can often give others a good first impression, however, it is hard to define someone’s physical appearance “beautiful” or not. Just like what Shakespeare had written in his book Love's Labour's Lost, “Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye”, concept of beauty of physical appearance is considered as subjective, however, it is in fact biologically based. This essay will show that by having both common and diverse traits among different cultures and countries around the world, concept of beauty of physical appearance is biologically constructed in evolutionary aspect and intellectual aspect.
Concept of beauty of physical appearance is biologically constructed since it is created by human reproduction need. According to Darwin’s evolution theory, the individual who is more adaptable to the environment will have the bigger chance to survive and reproduce next generation. Since health status could be one of the indicator showing a person is adaptable to the environment or not, humans would prefer to reproduce with other healthy mates (Jones et al., 2001). While some physical traits can indicate health status, these traits become sexually appealing to us, thus the concept of beauty is formed. For …show more content…
(Robson, 2015). However, it is proofed by experiment that participants from different culture have a very high concurrence in facial-attractiveness score. (Brichacek & Moreland, 2011) Showing that even living under different cultural background, the concept of beauty is still biological based as most of the human on Earth despite their race or culture, all have a similar average facial features length and width
Concept of beauty of physical appearance is biologically constructed since it is created by human reproduction need. According to Darwin’s evolution theory, the individual who is more adaptable to the environment will have the bigger chance to survive and reproduce next generation. Since health status could be one of the indicator showing a person is adaptable to the environment or not, humans would prefer to reproduce with other healthy mates (Jones et al., 2001). While some physical traits can indicate health status, these traits become sexually appealing to us, thus the concept of beauty is formed. For …show more content…
(Robson, 2015). However, it is proofed by experiment that participants from different culture have a very high concurrence in facial-attractiveness score. (Brichacek & Moreland, 2011) Showing that even living under different cultural background, the concept of beauty is still biological based as most of the human on Earth despite their race or culture, all have a similar average facial features length and width