article_snippet: A major study involving almost 60,000 volunteers rating almost 1,000 variations of the female figure discovered tall and slender is more attractive than curvy and hourglass-shaped.
article_snippet: But according to Australian university researchers, modern men - and women too - see the ideal as taller in height and longer in leg rather than bigger in bum and bust.
article_snippet: What researchers from the University of New South Wales in Sydney for the specialist journal Evolution and Human Behaviour found was that in every generation, the 60 lowest rated body shapes were generally the fattest, shortest and roundest of the computerised figures.
article_snippet: By the end of the eighth generation, the highest rated female form was tall with a small waist and long, slender legs, a smaller bottom and smaller bust said researchers from the University of New South Wales in Sydney for the specialist journal Evolution and Human Behaviour.
article_snippet: The report admitted that an ideal female body shape was still very much a matter of opinion - athletic men like athletic women, for instance, and different cultures had different tastes.
article_snippet: As each generation progressed, the favoured shape evolved into a taller, slimmer female figure with long, slender legs and a thin waist.
article_snippet: But overall it suggests tall and thin is preferred to short and curvy.
article_snippet: The predominant evolutionary trend, reflecting a likely major dimension of social selection operating on human female bodies, is toward greater slenderness and, particularly, narrower waists.'
article_snippet: The selection process in the research 'removed those physiques that appeared most overweight, and throughout the experiment we found evidence for strong directional selection on the waist, which was accompanied by lengthening of the legs and a reduction in seat girth, resulting in taller and more slender physiques.'
highlights_snippet: Both men and women prefer the longer limbed thinner look .
  