Talk:Human physical appearance

message: VfD 17 September 2003:
*Human physical appearance -- No useful content. Page needs a complete rework or delete. - 200.141.91.15 
**Keep: even if you do not call it an article but just a list without further content, it is a useful overview of the topics related to human physical appearance and the articles we have on these topics. - Patrick 20:58, 17 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Variations is the physical appearance of humans is believed by anthropologists to be an important factor in the development of personality and social relations. There is a relatively low sexual diamorphism between human males and females in comparison with other mammals. However humans are acutely sensitive to variations in physical appearance for reasons of evolution. Some people have traditionally linked some differences in personal appearance such as skelatal shape with race (but this is a controversial and sensitive matter).
Some differences in human appearance are genetic, others are the result of age or disease, and many are the result of personal adornment.
==Changes in human appearance throughout evolutionary history== Just from the 1930-1940's to now. There has been a change. Humans just look a little different than they used to. I can't put my finger on it. Not so much bigger, taller or anything like that. Just facially different.
:The current picture doesn't illustrate differences between males and females and is distorted because different human races have, on average, different levels of dimorphism. Here is a source: http://books.google.com.au/books?id=V0JheWC85h4C&pg=PA85&dq=sexual+dimorphism+and+race&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kSSLU5OjBYjIlQWJ4IC4Cw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sexual%20dimorphism%20and%20race&f=false
I think that in that picture, both sexes should be comparisons of either both male and female asian ancestry or male and female european ancestry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.181.224.208 (talk) 13:06, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: --Begin proposed alternative--

message: I was going to copy-edit, trim for relevancy, and insert links into this paragraph:
:In the 1968 film entitled "Style is Everything" directed and produced by David Moor, It is pondered that style as an attribute is mainly thought of as 'human physical appearance'. The idea that style can build on itself is discussed when Andrew Morton and Samantha Ryan (the most stylish people in the plot line as thought of by the world in the movie) propose that "Style is everything, our style styles itself, and inturn our style grows". In conclusion to the movie, it is agreed that sammy and andrew are the pinicle of style.
but upon conducting Wikipedia, IMDB, and Google searches, I was unable to find any information about this film.  Thus, I am removing this paragraph, but feel free to put it back in if you can provide references.  Thanks, Rundquist 00:48, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevent and possibly [[WP:V|unverifiable]] info 

message: This article is potential unverifiable, POV, OR...perhaps should be deleted--71.111.229.19 (talk) 19:22, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very suspect 

message: Most of "Other functional objects, temporarily attached to the body" is a duplication of the section above it.
69.150.11.68 (talk) 10:23, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication 

message: As much as everybody is allowed to do whatever they want with their own body, is it really the best choice to display a fully (legs, genitals) shaved woman and a partially (genital) shaved man? Biology doesn't care about human trends 
Nanaki13 (talk) 08:26, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustration (picture) 

message: Idk 172.194.163.239 (talk) 10:04, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Physical appearance 

message: The lead image shows a man with no pubic hair, and a woman with no body hair at all (presumably shaved). This is skewed towards a particular cultural standard for physical appearance, and I believe should be replaced with an image more representative of human appearance in general. anna328p // talk 16:15, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead image cultural bias