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. 2014 Apr;30(2):93-100.
doi: 10.1055/s-0034-1371905. Epub 2014 May 8.

Global facial beauty: approaching a unified aesthetic ideal

Noah B Sands  1 , Peter A Adamson  1
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Global facial beauty: approaching a unified aesthetic ideal

Noah B Sands et al. Facial Plast Surg. 2014 Apr.

Abstract

Recognition of facial beauty is both inborn and learned through social discourses and exposures. Demographic shifts across the globe, in addition to cross-cultural interactions that typify 21st century globalization in virtually all industries, comprise major active evolutionary forces that reshape our individual notions of facial beauty. This article highlights the changing perceptions of beauty, while defining and distinguishing natural beauty and artificial beauty.

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