Spotlight: Attractive faces are average faces

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Average Women faces in different countries by FaceResearch.org.

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FaceResearch lab run by Ben Jones and Lisa DeBruine,  is based in the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow, has published results of experiments on Facial Attractiveness. 
The concept of average faces was initially tossed in the 1800s by Sir Francis Galton who created composite images of faces by projecting face photographs of many different individuals onto a single piece of photographic film. Now with the advent of technology scientists are experimenting with digital composites, photographs aligned by pupils position followed by standardizing face position.
In "Facial Shape and judgments of female attractiveness" paper submitted by D. I. Perrett, K.A. May and S. Yoshikawa, found out that highly attractive faces are systematically different in shape from average. the similarity of attractive facial characteristics across two cultures is consistent with the claim that such characteristics are functionally significant.