The more humans evolve, the more beautiful women become

This should be heartening news for women around the world. European scientists have found that women have become more beautiful over the course of human evolution, while men remain as unattractive as their cave-dwelling ancestors, British media reported recently.

The study also showed that attractive women have more children than their average-looking counterparts and tend to have a higher proportion of girls. When girls grow up, they often become as beautiful as their mothers and pass on their beauty to the next generation.

Beautiful women have more children

According to a series of studies on physical attractiveness and the evolution of reproduction, the so-called "beautiful race" can continue over the course of human reproduction.

Researchers at the University of Helsinki in Finland put that research into context last week.

Marcus, who led the study. Jokela said the research team tracked data from 1,244 women and 997 men in the United States for 40 years. The subjects were rated for their physical attractiveness based on the photos, and the number of children they had was also collected. The results showed that attractive women had on average 16 per cent more children than other women.

Parents look easy to give birth to baby girls

The findings build on previous work by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics. Kanazawa said that attractive parents tend to be more likely to give birth to girls, which is an "evolutionary strategy" carefully designed in human genes.

Kanazawa points to two findings from the Long-term Follow-up Study on Adolescent Health. The first is that both men and women agree that "women are more beautiful than men." The second is that couples who are both attractive are 26 percent less likely to have a son.

Funded by the U.S. government, researchers surveyed at least 15,000 Americans, collecting data that included an objective assessment of their physical appearance.

"Physical attractiveness is a highly heritable trait that is disproportionately more 'successfully replicated' in daughters than sons." "If good-looking parents have more daughters, and if their physical attractiveness is heritable, then logically, over several generations, women do become better looking than men," Jokela said. (Rea)