The research was conducted in order to corroborate the validity of the hypotheses that (1) there are certain common criteria of physical attractiveness of the face, and hence divergence of assessments between persons judging attractiveness is reduced, regardless of their sex or age; (2) assessment of the physical attractiveness of human faces is a property of the cognitive system; its criteria emerge early in the course of the individual development and do not change with age; (3); the most attractive faces will be characterised with trait variants close to the mean values for a given population. Computer averaged faces will be perceived as more attractive than actually existing faces, since they bear the greatest resemblance to the mental prototype of a face.
ADAPTIVE ASPECTS OF HOMINIZATION. PART I. MORPHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS. Both some geological, climatic and material traces that are used in paleonthology let recon struct the complex of the adaptive traits that were developed in Australopithecines. The environmental con ditions of the South-Eastern Africa in late Pliocene and early Pleistocene directed some morphological, physiological and behavioural changes which the first hominids underwent.
The evolution of human speech was probably involved into development of brain structures responsible for cultural behaviour, specially tool-making. Moreover, it has been sugested that only Homo erectus species had the speech apparatus formed the way which allowed to articulate some sounds.
ADAPTATIVE ASPECTS OF HOMINIZATION. PART II. NUTRITIVE ADAPTATIONS. Both som e geo logical, climatic and material traces that are used in paleonthology let reconstruct the com plex of the adaptative traits that w ere developed in Australopithecines. The environmental conditions of South-Eastern Africa in late Pliocene and early Pleistocene directed some morphological, physiological and behavioural changes which the first hominids underwent.
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