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Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but it would be a mistake to assume that our notions of human beauty are completely subjective. Though exceptions exist, people tend to agree about who's attractive. Hundreds of thousands of Web hits each year, for example, demonstrate that there's something special about tennis player Anna Kournikova--and it's probably not her backhand. What is it about certain individuals that makes our hearts go pitter-pat? In a word, it's symmetry. According to recent studies on the subject of human attractiveness, those people whose faces (and bodies) are the most symmetrical are the ones we find most desirable.
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