Funny that bipedal, neotenous animals capable of language are so common in modern culture (e.g. cartoons), and not, say, dog-shaped humans who cannot speak.
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A dog body can be appreciated as "wow, he's pretty buff" or "I wouldn't mind seeing what it's like to run like that for an hour" or even "I bet this dog is attractive to other dogs", but it takes an extra unusual mind to frame it in human terms (or to be disinterested in humans).
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Assessing this in terms of attraction makes sense, although it seems to me that we find humanoids interesting outside the context of mating. I guess this is part of our social adaptations, i.e. it's more adaptive to pay attention to humanoids than non-.
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