The Discovery Channel: Survival of the Prettiest
 

Karen Taylor and Dr. Nancy Etcoff confer to produce the universal face of “beauty”


At the request of Dr. Nancy Etcoff, a professor of neuropsychology at Harvard Medical School, Karen drew the idealized face of “beauty” for a television feature production entitled Survival of the Prettiest. California-based Termite Art Productions developed the hour-long program for the Discovery Channel, based on Dr. Etcoff’s book of the same name. Dr. Etcoff conferred with Karen to arrive at a universal “template face” of beauty in conjunction with Etcoff's belief that physical attraction is innate and biologically-based rather than learned behavior.

Taylor's template face fits classic beauties Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Halle Berry, Lucy Lui and Vanessa Williams
 
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