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Slashdot: Are Women Getting More Beautiful?

Of course, I wondered about the source to this story. It’s the Times (London):

FOR the female half of the population, it may bring a satisfied smile. Scientists have found that evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful, while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors.

The researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female. Those daughters, once adult, also tend to be attractive and so repeat the pattern.

Over generations, the scientists argue, this has led to women becoming steadily more aesthetically pleasing, a “beauty race” that is still on. The findings have emerged from a series of studies of physical attractiveness and its links to reproductive success in humans.

Funny, I thought they were just smarter.

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11 comments for “Slashdot: Are Women Getting More Beautiful?”

  1. The comedian Georgie Jessel once told Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, “The older you get, the more pretty young girls* there are around.” It might have something to do with that.
    (*from a time when women were called “girls” before men’s enlightenment.)

    Posted by Robert Mullins | July 27, 2009, 8:46 pm
  2. Yes, and it makes you wonder about the research criteria, and the researchers!

    Posted by Giovanni Rodriguez | July 27, 2009, 9:11 pm
  3. Interesting take on a somewhat odd topic. But, since I have four children (more than most women I know)…I’ll take it to heart (she said with a smile).

    Posted by Andrea Cousens | July 28, 2009, 12:47 pm
  4. I will concede that women are smarter. And perhaps they are getting more beautiful. But I’m waiting for the scientific research on who is funnier.

    Posted by Giovanni Rodriguez | July 28, 2009, 12:57 pm
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