Humans 'attracted to partners that look like their parents' Researchers have concluded opposites do not necessarily actually attract. A team of experts from St Andrews University found women are attracted to men who remind them of their fathers and men to women who look like their mothers. They found that people are far more likely to marry those who look like their opposite sex parent, particularly when it comes to hair and eye colour. Anthony Little, 25, who led the research, said: "We found that people really did pick partners who resembled their opposite sex parent. "It is something a...