Now just hold on there a second, Mr. Scientist, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just speak for yourself.
Posted on 07/26/2009 7:40:33 AM PDT by Schnucki
Researchers found that attractive women have more children than their less attractive counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female.
Once those daughters become adult they tend to be good looking themselves and so the pattern is repeated as women over the generations become steadily more aesthetically pleasing.
As attractive couples are less likely to have boy than a girl, men, in contrast, remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors, the scientists claim.
The findings have emerged from a series of studies of physical attractiveness and its links to reproductive success in humans. In a study released last week, Markus Jokela, a researcher at the University of Helsinki, found beautiful women had up to 16 per cent more children than less attractive women.
He looked at a sample of more than 2,000 men and women in America, following them through four decades of life.
Their attractiveness was assessed from photographs taken during the study, which also collected data on the number of children they had.
A study in 2006 by scientists at the London School of Economics found that good-looking parents were far more likely to conceive daughters.
He suggested this was because of differing "evolutionary strategies" that each sex has adopted to survive, and which had been subtly programmed into their DNA.
Mr Kanazawa said: "Physical attractiveness is a highly heritable trait, which disproportionately increases the reproductive success of daughters much more than that of sons.
"If more attractive parents have more daughters and if physical attractiveness is heritable, it logically follows that women over many generations gradually become more physically attractive on average than men."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I will sure go along with the idea that men are hairy smelly and ugly
but I see a lot of ugly women too
as a woman I think they have a duty to at least try for pete’s sake
Toooo funny! LOL
“Women Getting More Beautiful, Scientists Say...”
...as plastic surgery becomes more accessible...
I have five. I must be gorgeous. At least you know my husband thinks so.
Well, just damn. My husband and I had 3 boys and a girl. What does that tell you about us? Oy.
[My daughter is beautiful. And my boys are tall, dark, slender and handsome— deep blue eyes. But— I suppose these scientists MUST be right and I hallucinate.]
Everything regresses to the mean
I had to read that sentence several times, too. It’s saying “attractive” couples have fewer boys than girls, so the fact that I have six sons and three daughters must mean my husband and I aren’t attractive, except to each other.
Now just hold on there a second, Mr. Scientist, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just speak for yourself.
You’re right. It doesn’t First, it said those with many children are attractive, then it says if I am attractive that I wouldn’t have so many boys. At least it got the part about my husband looking like a caveman right.
I agree. The least men can do is brush their teeth and change their dirty underwear and socks.
“Now I know why Hillary only had one child.”
With Webb Hubble!
But these are my lucky underwear!
The decline of the species in six words ...
Sex - so easy, even a caveman can do it.
I’m guessing the author has never been to a N.O.W. meeting.
Mickey Gilley - Don’t the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time
The girls all get prettier at closing time
They all begin to look like movie stars
The girls all get prettier at closing time
When the change starts taking place
It puts a glow on every face
Of the falling angels of the back street bars.
If I could rate’em on a scale from 1 to 10
I’m lookin’ for a 9 but 8 would slip right in
A few more drinks and I might slip to a 5 or even a 4
But when tomorrow morning comes,
And I wake up with a number 1
I swear I’ll never do it anymore.
Chorus:
The girls all get prettier at closing time
They all begin to look like movie stars
The girls all get prettier at closing time
When the change starts taking place
It puts a glow on every face
Of the falling angels of the back street bars.
-— Instrumental -—
Now, I don’t mean to criticize the girls at all
I know Robert Redford, even overhauls
We all picture in our minds a girl that looks just right
Ain’t it funny, ain’t it strange,
The way a man’s opinion changes
When he starts to face that lonely night.
Chorus:
The girls all get prettier at closing time
They all begin to look like movie stars
The girls all get prettier at closing time
When the change starts taking place
It puts a glow on every face
Of the falling angels of the back street bars.
Of the falling angels of the back street bars...
Anecdotally, I find that women with MORE children tend to be LESS attractive. With a high probability that not all of those children share the same father.
The more attractive women wish to “keep their figures” and limit childbearing, at least in my personal experience.
And of course, attractiveness is highly subjective. Hence the term “there’s someone for everyone”.
Of course, both my son AND my daughter are gorgeous. Aren’t everyone’s kids?
Obviouly the UK doesn’t have trailer parks
where a family of seven or eight people live
in a 22 foot RV. The wife is fat and has no
front teeth, but boy can she breed.
hmmmmm...how old are your sons? I’m thinking we conservatives need to get some matchmaking done to keep things going! LOL
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