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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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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So I buy the reasons for disinterest in non-humanoids. I am not sure about the idea of hyper-attractive faces applying, but you're pretty near to a testable hypothesis there.
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