Can We Crack the Beauty Code?Six Ordinary Faces, but Which Is the Most Good-Looking? We Asked a Panel of 20 Men and Women to Assess Our Volunteers.Cate Devine Studies the Results and Asks: Is It All in the Eye of the Beholder?

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WHAT is beauty?

Or, to put it another way, what makes one face more beautiful than another? The answer, of course, is that there is no definitive answer. Just take a look at our six faces and what our panel said about them: you're bound to argue with their conclusions. So who is right?

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Can We Crack the Beauty Code?Six Ordinary Faces, but Which Is the Most Good-Looking? We Asked a Panel of 20 Men and Women to Assess Our Volunteers.Cate Devine Studies the Results and Asks: Is It All in the Eye of the Beholder?

What constitutes true beauty is an age-old conundrum, yet it's one from which we can still learn about ourselves, says Glasgowborn John Armstrong, associate professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne, who has written a new book on the subject.

"I don't think there is a standard, absolute form of beauty in a human face, " he says. "There's a view that certain proportions between the length of the nose, the height of the forehead and the space between the nose and upper lip are more pleasing than others and therefore contribu...

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