Could it be that the brain arrives at its ideal of facial beauty by averaging?

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answer:I think we like symmetry as an indicaton of genetic health. Averaging a lot of pictures, asuming any a-symmetries are random, would lead to symmetric faces with the a-symmetries averaged out. I think that’s the main driver, here.

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