Vitruvian Man
For as long as time can tell, it has been a universally accepted belief that when you mix two ugly things, they will create something even worse (eg. Aliens vs Predator). The Law of the Conservation of Shit clearly states that combining one kilogram of pure honey with one kilogram of crap will yield two kilograms of crap. A recent study, however, suggest that this law does not apply to human faces. By layering many portraits of unattractive people together, the resulting image will actually be very beautiful. This evidence strongly supports Plato's belief of the ideal human form. He carried out similar experiments on human and animal proportions, and concluded that life seeks to be a perfect form, with each proportion approaching the Golden Mean as the number of samples increases.
I wonder, once the genome is more clearly understood, could we gather and average all deviations of human DNA, combining them to make the perfect man? Click on the pics to see a demo of this research on the pheomenon of the facial mean.
Daimonds in the rough.
The Composite Average.
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