All Things That Rise » evolution http://allthingsthatrise.com PEOPLE * TECHNOLOGY * EVOLUTION Sun, 30 May 2010 19:58:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Slashdot: Are Women Getting More Beautiful? http://allthingsthatrise.com/2009/07/27/slashdot-are-women-getting-more-beautiful/ http://allthingsthatrise.com/2009/07/27/slashdot-are-women-getting-more-beautiful/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 03:31:50 +0000 Giovanni Rodriguez http://allthingsthatrise.com/?p=202 smarter.]]> 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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