The Evolution of Beauty
27 Jul
Scientists from the University of Helsinki have recently claimed that women are becoming more beautiful with each successive generation. The theory goes that attractive women tend to have more children than less attractive women and more of these children are girls than boys. This means that attractive genes are passed on resulting in more beautiful girls or girls who are more beautiful? I’m still not sure but one thing the article was clear on was than men aren’t getting any better looking.
You would think that this seeing as this generation of men is more inclined to use moisturizer and care what we look like we would be better looking than the previous generation. I guess we should give up trying to compete and just enjoy being surrounded by beautiful women.
“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.”
Markus Jokela from the University of Helsinki designed the study which involved assessing the attractiveness of 2,000 American men and women. Researchers also looked at how many children those in the study had and confirmed that those considered more attractive were more likely to have female offspring. The eventual outcome of this is that each new generation contains more attractive women (or women who are considered more attractive, it’s a very subjective thing beauty and very hard to measure).
Megan Fox: Minger
