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 ...
As an old C&W song said years ago about bar drinkers... “The girls all get prettier at closin’ time!”
An as one well known make-up artist said at that time...”There is no thing as an ugly woman.”
Then there is an old, old joke about man who married a beautiful woman.
On their wedding night she took out her false teeth and put them in the dresser.
She took off her wig and put it in the dresser.
She took off her false eyelashes and put them in the drawer.
She took out her “falsies” and put them in the dresser.
She took off her hip pads and put themin the dresser.
She then got into bed and asked her new husband...”Aren’t you coming to bed?”
He said..”I don’t know whether to jump into bed or into the dresser!”
It took 42 posts to get it right!
somebody call 911 for me
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The author forgot that flowers have to attract pollinators. Poillinators don’t have to attract flowers.
I’ve noticed that when a married couple has a boy and a girl, the girl looks like the father, and the boy resembles the mom.
There is not a lot of data to define beauty, as popular culture has seized the discussion. Universal beauty definitely needs to include a character test.... There is little that makes her get ugly younger than when a woman creates an unstable family units.
Just going to scroll down now and see which one of you guys BEAT me to Beer Goggles!
W.S. Gilcrest is the WINNER!!!!
Muffin tops!
Yep, there’s a lot more plastic surgery and better lighting available today.
I would be nice to live in a world where all the women look like characters in Everquest, or World of Warcraft.
Except it is a lie.
A pretty women makes her husband look small
it very often causes his downfall
As soon as he marries her then she starts
to do the things that will break his heart
but if you make an ugly women your wife
you’ll be happy for the rest of your life
An ugly women cooks meals on time
and she’ll always give you a piece of Mind
Don’t let your friends tell you you have no taste
go ahead and marry anyway
Her face is ugly her eyes don’t match
take it from me shes a better catch
If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life . . .
I never fail to be amazed at women such as those you have pictured don’t seem to understand that “hiphuggers” just don’t work on fat chicks.
Is there a shortage of mirrors in this country? LOL!
Left this off: http://www.topnews.in/health/fat-women-have-more-sex-%E2%80%98normal%E2%80%99-counterparts-25040
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