What's bodyLab all about?

bodyLab is a non-for-profit University-based project in which we explore the evolution of human body shapes and of our ideas of attractiveness. Our judgments and decisions about attractiveness permeate almost all our social interactions as well as many commercial decisions that affect our lives. You may have heard of measures like body mass index (BMI) or waist-hip ratio (WHR) and how they effect attractiveness. bodyLab researchers recognise that there can be much more to human attractiveness than one, or a small number of measures, can capture and we are trying to understand how all the traits that make up a body combine to influence attractiveness.

In March 2010 we started with a population of 120 female bodies, and added a similar population of male bodies shortly after that. We have been refreshing (and propose to continue to refresh) the populations every month, using the most attractive bodies as “parents” for the next generation. The bodies are always evolving, so come back each month and see what’s new.

If you want to sponsor our work (it takes money to keep this kind of thing going), please contact us at bodylab@bodylab.biz

To participate in our experiments just follow the link below.