Cute? gene?

[victor]

is a 'cute' definition for us is inherited in our gene?? I aske this because all human can define 'cute' and when we compare that, there're not much different...

[mith]

Cute is what a baby looks like. As social animals we're embedded with a definition of cute to protect and love our offspring.

Look at any disney cartoon, the cutesy characters have huge heads, huge eyes and short stumpy limbs.

[James]

Our eyes stay the same size from birth to adulthood. The big eyes of a baby promote our caring instinct, and we percieve them as 'cute', and thus want to look after them.

[Waters2]

So the 'cute' definition is just for our emotion or just a word to describe to protect and love-caring our offsprings.

[Dr.Stein]

That's also somewhat an expression of progesterone hormone effect

[MrMistery]

Very accurate. The babyface is deeply embeded in our genetic information. If you compare a picture of Bill Clinton with the one on the posters when he ran for congress you will see that his features are modified s he will have more of a babyface

[mith]

I'm not sure about this but old people's features seem to regress into child-like features too.

[Waters2]

The old people's features changed to babyface like is to be more attractive for us and embeded in our mind as MrMistery said. Do u want to vote who the old people's feature and also bad health which nearly going to heaven.....to run for the country?(Not said to any specific president or future president here, hehe). Sometimes the attitude of the old people can be said to be cute. I think this is recycle back to their childhood and later on slowly to baby's attitude.

[chemistry_freako]

Hmm, yea, and cute is a little subjective at times - some people might not find old people cute, while others who have a different idea of what 'cute' means might think otherwise

[ginny]

Cute :
Cute is a good example of how a shortened form of a word can take on a life of its own, developing a sense that dissociates it from the longer word from which it was derived. Cute was originally a shortened form of acute in the sense "keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd." In this sense cute is first recorded in a dictionary published in 1731. Probably cute came to be used as a term of approbation for things demonstrating acuteness, and so it went on to develop its own sense of "pretty, fetching," first recorded with reference to "gals" in 1838.

Hope that answered that questioned pretty well. let me know. alright take care bye...

[MrMistery]

You must be really fun at parties...
Seriously now, did you know all those things by heart?