Taylor Swift body shape is more desirable than Kim Kardashian's. According to scientists, the ideal female body shape is leggy, tall and thin like Taylor Swift, not short and busty with a big bottom like the US reality TV star.
Daily Mail reported that a major study involving almost 60,000 volunteers, who rated almost 1,000 variations of the female figure, revealed that tall and slender women are more attractive than those with curvy and hourglass-shape.
The research of the University of New South Wales in Sydney for the specialist journal Evolution and Human Behavior, stated that modern men and women deemed that the ideal body shape of women is taller in height and longer in leg rather than bigger in bum and bust.
This result contradicts the view that men are attracted over the decades to the more voluptuous pin ups from Marilyn Monroe to Page Three Girls.
According to the University of New South Wales, the study stated that "the predominant evolutionary trend, reflecting a likely major dimension of social selection operating on human female bodies, is toward greater slenderness and, particularly, narrower waists."
The University of New South Wales developed digital images of different female body shapes based on 24 basic factors from bust and bottom size to length of legs and waist circumference.
Volunteers from all over the world who responded to a social media campaign rated a 120 first 'generation digital images. They were shown side and front on profiles of these women but the faces were pixilated in order for them to be rated purely on body shape and physical features.
The top 60 for ratings were taken to the next stage and each of these had two different versions, one slightly bigger different from the other creating another 120 figures. Each of the remaining 60 were then taken and a slight variation of each was added to create another 120 shapes.
The process was repeated for eight 'generations', or a total of 960 different shapes and sizes of female body.
The study revealed that in every generation, the 60 lowest rated body shapes were generally the fattest, shortest, and roundest of the computerized figures.
By the end of the eighth generation, the highest rated female form was tall with a small waist and long, slender legs, a smaller bottom and smaller bust.
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