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Cats like me depend on this... How about the fact that 'physical beauty is only skin deep'. Real beauty is within. “Selection pressure means when parents have traits they can pass on that are better for boys than for girls, they are more likely to have boys. Such traits include large size, strength and aggression, which might help a man compete for mates. On the other hand, parents with heritable traits that are more advantageous to girls are more likely to have daughters.”Hit the nail right on. sidegik also noticed that parents who has more daughters than sons tends to be spiritually stronger. The headline was a little misleading because of its association to marriage. it should just say that "why women are more beautiful than men?" "why some "beautiful" women marry unattractive men?" is completely another study. I agree, sidegik... it seems that writer mixed together 2 topics. Heading and introductory lines say about marriages, rest of article about heritability of beauty. Kanazawa sounds a little bit like heretic : [i]"Physical attractiveness is one highly heritable trait, which disproportionately increases the reproductive success of daughters much more than that of sons. Men in all cultures prefer physically attractive women for both long- and short-term mating, whereas women prefer physically attractive men mostly for short-term mating. If physically more attractive parents have more daughters, and if physical attractiveness is heritable, then it logically follows that women over many gene... Good bit of following up there, Lubaska. |
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