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<strong>Neoteny</strong> is the retention of juvenile features in adulthood. In humans female show significantly greater neoteny than males. The more attractive a woman is the higher neoteny she will generally have.
[[File:Feigned neoteny.jpg|190px|thumb|Natural vs feigned neoteny]]<strong>Neoteny</strong> is the retention of juvenile features in adulthood. In humans, females show significantly greater neoteny than males. The more attractive a woman is the higher neoteny she will generally have.


Some research suggests that women's brains are more neotenous than men's brains.<ref>https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6386682/</ref>
Neoteny is not to be confused with feigned or manufactured neoteny which relies not on biological endowment but on the use of artifice to create a juvenile appearance: eg; cosmetics, fashions, plastic surgery, and mimicking of childlike appearances and gestures.<ref>Wright, P., How to feign neoteny: an instruction manual for women (2018)</ref> Feigned neoteny is said to be more powerful in eliciting responses from observers than is natural neoteny, and has been referred to as a supernormal sign stimulus.<ref>[https://gynocentrism.com/2016/05/19/chasing-the-dragon-a-biopsychosocial-approach/ Elam, P. & Wright, P., Chasing The Dragon: Understanding Superstimuli (2016)]</ref>

Neoteny is not to be confused with feigned or manufactured neoteny which relies not on biological endowment but on the use of artifice to create a juvenile appearance: eg; cosmetics, fashions, plastic surgery, and mimicking of childlike appearances and gestures.<ref>Wright, P., How to feign neoteny: an instruction manual for women (2018)</ref> Feigned neoteny is said to be more powerful in eliciting responses from observers than is natural neoteny, and has been referred to in this regard as a supernormal sign stimulus.<ref>[https://gynocentrism.com/2016/05/19/chasing-the-dragon-a-biopsychosocial-approach/ Elam, P. & Wright, P., Chasing The Dragon: Understanding Superstimuli (2016)]</ref>

== See Also ==

*[[Hypergamy]]

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==See also==
*[https://gynocentrism.com/2018/07/06/how-to-feign-neoteny-an-instruction-manual-for-women/ How to feign neoteny: an instruction manual for women]
*[https://gynocentrism.com/2018/07/06/how-to-feign-neoteny-an-instruction-manual-for-women/ How to feign neoteny: an instruction manual for women]
*[https://gynocentrism.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/childlekeness-teaching-for-women.pdf Fascinating Womanhood: Childlikeness Teaching For Women (1965)]
*[https://gynocentrism.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/childlekeness-teaching-for-women.pdf Fascinating Womanhood: Childlikeness Teaching For Women (1965)]


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Latest revision as of 01:19, 12 January 2026

Natural vs feigned neoteny

Neoteny is the retention of juvenile features in adulthood. In humans, females show significantly greater neoteny than males. The more attractive a woman is the higher neoteny she will generally have.

Some research suggests that women's brains are more neotenous than men's brains.[1]

Neoteny is not to be confused with feigned or manufactured neoteny which relies not on biological endowment but on the use of artifice to create a juvenile appearance: eg; cosmetics, fashions, plastic surgery, and mimicking of childlike appearances and gestures.[2] Feigned neoteny is said to be more powerful in eliciting responses from observers than is natural neoteny, and has been referred to in this regard as a supernormal sign stimulus.[3]

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