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Attractive parents are more likely to…

Published on August 3, 2006 at 11:15 AM

Have a girl as their first born kin.(I guess I know where I stand!)

Behold exhibits A & B:

Here’s the article:

“According to research, attractive parents are 74 per cent more likely to have a daughter than a son as their first child,” reports The Sunday Times of London. “It is an inexorable process that has resulted in women becoming increasingly more attractive than men. This is because of differing ‘evolutionary strategies’ that each sex has adopted to survive, claim researchers at the London School of Economics.

…”We have shown two things,’ said Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, who led the research. ‘Beautiful parents have more daughters than ugly parents, because physical attractiveness is heritable and because daughters benifit from attractiveness more than sons. We have also shown that women on average are more attractive than men…’ ” The study, published in the Journal of The orentical Biology, analyzed more than 20,000 people in America.

Source: ONTD

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