The argument's often been made that women are the more "evolved" sex. Now, according to recent research, we're actually getting hotter to boot. As for guys? Mmm, no such luck.The University of Helsinki study found that women with features associated with physical attractiveness are disproportionately more likely to have daughters than sons. Their daughters inherit their attractive traits and thus, also have more daughters than sons, and so on and so forth.
Basically, selective breeding has created an army of super-hot women. But since women are less likely to choose a mate based on looks, guys have tended to stay at basically the same level of handsome since they were hassling mastodons.
If that doesn't seem fair, it's because it's not. From an evolutionary standpoint, it seems like the pressure is still on men to "provide" (i.e., take care of a lady while pregnant and nursing). So if we want guys to get any hotter, we'd better start buying more Ferraris, hair pieces and pool boys.
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Friday 07 August
By Brad
Women are getting uglier not prettier. FATct women are fatter now than ever, the only thing that makes them pretty is make up and cosmetic surgery.
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Tuesday 27 October
By MOMO
I don't know where YOU live
Saturday 16 January
By NoName
Which is assuming that 1) the majority of women are getting fatter and 2) there can never be an attractive fat woman.
Wow, you're an asshole.
Sunday 16 August
By Aaron
So the evolutionary system is selecting for more and more shagworthy females? Is this a surprise? Crowns aren't the only thing you can get for your beauty: money too, husband too, kids too. Evolution is mindless: don't think everything it does is good. A nation of Miss South Carolinas would be a disaster.
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Saturday 24 October
By Tiffany
so since I had a son instead of a daughter this means I was not deemed hot enough by evolutionary standards?
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Saturday 24 October
By kay
Brad: men are also fatter than ever, curse of america, not strictly woman-genes...also, what are you gay or something? nothing wrong with that, just seems like youve got alot of woman hate there
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Saturday 24 October
By l27263
"The University of Helsinki study found that women with features associated with physical attractiveness are disproportionately more likely to have daughters than sons." Good trick, since it's long been established that it's the men's contribution to fertlization, not the women's, that determine the sex of the child ....
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Saturday 24 October
By hb
Actually, if you've been reading up on genetic studies lately, you'll see that this finding is quite plausible. Yes, the male gamete determines the sex of a child, but there is research now that has led many scientists to believe that the egg of a female and the sperm of a male are in competition with each other, and that can have the effect of producing a higher percentage of a certain type of offspring. If you're interested, try reading the book Adam's Curse by Bryan Sykes. It's quite good, and clears up a lot about genetic studies today.
Saturday 24 October
By GoodBoomBoom
the idea of there being more and more shagable women is great, but sadly as l27263 put it, this article is irrational and illogical
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Monday 26 October
By KIPP
UM..."BULLSHIT." WOMEN ARE SHRINKING AS A RESULT OF NEGATIVE HEALTH ISSUES THAT ARE RAMPAGING OUR SOCIETY DUE TO THE NEARLY INFINITE OUTSIDE INFLUENCES AFFECTING IT. IT'S SUBJECTIVE TO SAY THAT BEING SMALLER, SMARTER,ETC, IS HEALTHIER.HEALTHY IS SUBJECTIVE. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT TRUE HEALTH IS AND NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW.MY OPINION OF HEALTH IS WHATEVER I WANT IT TO BE NOT WHAT SOME OUTSIDER SAYS. ARE YOU HEALTHY WHEN SIGNS OF SICKNESS ARE GONE? MAYBE. MAYBE NOT.ARE YOU HEALTHY WHEN YOU FEEL GOOD? WHO KNOWS. ARE YOU HEALTHY WHEN YOU ARE SICK? IT JUST DEPENDS ON HOW YOU PERSONALLY SEE IT. LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU FIND THE ANSWER 'CAUSE I'D REALLY LIKE TO KNOW. BUT IN MY EXPERIENCE, EXTREME BEAUTY, INTELLIGENCE, ETC, IS REALLY JUST A SIGN OF BAD THINGS TO COME.
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Tuesday 27 October
By Andrea
Hey Kipp, why are you yelling??
Tuesday 27 October
By Anna
Oh sweeeeet Brad, I bet all the women chase after you with THAT attitude.......not.
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Wednesday 28 October
By B
Sounds to me like this is a great thing for men and irrelevant for women. Remembering that the hotter women get the higher the standard for hot becomes!
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Thursday 31 December
By dont quote me on this, but...
even if for the most part, men determine the sex of a child, there is a theory of 'natural selection' where it could be possible that the forces of nature itself are forcing males to give the female gene if the mother is what nature hopes to have more of. you never know, i believe in natural selection. maybe prettier females are better for the envirnment lol, although i doubt physical beauty has anything to do with anything. maybe one day everyone will be considered beautiful. HA. YEAH RIGHT. like god would let something so revelutionary happen.
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Saturday 06 February
By Heidi
Yay! Another article that declares (instead of just guessing) that female's sexuality is and should always be totally for and about males!
Models may be getting prettier, but the rest of us? hm. Sounds like the hot chicks will remain a minority population, even if they get hotter and hotter.
I think we, as critical readers, need to evaluate if everything we read (including these 'facts') are in actuality 'facts', or whether they are just assumptions, sensationalised guesses, and news designed to catch your eye and make you read something that reinforces today's standards of gender roles: women be hot, be fertile, be young. Men: be wealthy, be manly, be older. That's not evolution; that's society adapting to evolution by coming up with social roles that split labor, keep men in power roles, and keep the modern focus on women's looks instead of their accomplishments.
Oh well - at least it was an interesting, eye-catching article, and that's all you can really except from a 'news' site like this.
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Monday 22 February
By dasara
Hi this is dasara
like god would let something so revelutionary happen.
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