為什麼男人喜歡大眼睛妹子?
Why Do Men Find Women With Larger Eyes Attractive?
為什麼男人喜歡大眼睛妹子？
According to several university studies, research has shown that men generally find larger eyes on women more attractive.
據多個大學研究顯示，男人普遍覺得大眼妹子最具吸引力。
The perceived attractiveness of larger eyes has led to a growing trend (especially in Asia) of women using cosmetics and contact lenses with larger limbal rings in an attempt to create the illusion of larger eyes. Many have even done this permanently through cosmetic surgery.
為了增加魅力，很多女性（尤其在亞洲）會採用化妝或者帶美瞳的方式，加大深色瞳孔範圍，使眼睛看起來更大。甚至有些直接做了永久性整容手術。
Why do men find larger eyes attractive?
那麼問題來了，為什麼男人喜歡大眼妹子呢？
There seems to be two separate reasons which attempt to address the question. The first is that larger eyes (along with fuller lips, bigger breasts and smaller chins) are a sign of higher levels of estrogen. Women that have higher levels of estrogen will be more successful and have an easier time conceiving than women with lower levels. This means that women with larger eyes will be seen as a better “mate”.
似乎有兩個原因。首先，大眼睛（豐滿嘴脣和胸部，小下巴）是雌激素高的表現。雌激素高的女性比雌激素低的女性更易懷孕。因此，大眼妹子看起來會是不錯的配偶。
The second reason is that large eyes are a neotenous feature.
其次，是因為眼睛幼態成熟的機制。
A neotenous feature is a characteristic of youth shared by babies and children that humans evolved to retain so they could attract quality mates with “protective and nurturing impulses”.
幼態成熟機制是指成年人仍保持幼兒的特徵，這樣容易引起配偶的“保護欲”。
Since human eyes do not grow in size during its development relative to the rest of the body, the size of the eye relative to the face decreases as we grow. This means that babies have larger eyes compared to older children and adults. As a consequence, people who have large eyes are often perceived to be younger than they really are. Since perceived youth of a mate is also a sign of fertility, men tend to prefer women with neotenous features, like large eyes.
由於人的眼睛並不會隨其他身體部位一樣生長髮育，眼睛會隨著我們長大而看起來變小。因此，嬰兒的眼睛看起來總是比青少年或成人要大。看起來年輕也是好生育的特徵之一，所以男人更傾向選擇擁有幼態成熟特徵的女性，比如說有大眼睛。
Sexual Selection
最後，性別選擇有關。
It's thanks to something that happens in evolution called Fisherian runaway selection. Fisherian selection suggests that, when one sex prefers mates with certain genetic traits, then, through the process of sexual selection, the other sex will come to possess the trait in increasingly exaggerated forms.
這跟我們進化中的費舍爾氏失控理論有關。根據這個理論，如果一個性別選擇與具有特殊體徵的異性交配，在性別選擇過程中，另一性別就會刻意擁有並誇大這種體徵。
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