http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/
2006/08/01/nbeauty31.xml&sSheet=/connected/2006/08/01/ixconn.html
http://tinyurl.com/qtxg6
"Beautiful people not only seem to get richer, live longer and float
through life with greater ease than the less visually blessed, they
are also changing the face of the world.
Researchers have established that very attractive people are 36 per
cent more likely to have daughters than sons and that the world's
females are becoming better-looking than men as a result.
The report, from the London School of Economics, may provide an
insight into the biological forces that lead the most striking people
to produce first-born daughters.
It postulates that differing "evolutionary strategies" lead parents
to produce the sex that would most benefit from their own
characteristics.
So while the children of aggressive, scientific parents tend to be
boys, who can outwit their competitors when it comes to finding a
mate, the children of beautiful, empathic parents tend to be girls,
who can take their pick from the gene pool and then hang on to their
man.
"These may be stereotypes but they are also fact," said Dr Satoshi
Kanazawa, the evolutionary psychologist who led the research.
"We have shown that beautiful parents have more daughters than ugly
parents because physical attractiveness is heritable and because
daughters benefit from this more than sons."
The findings are not short of famous examples, including Brad Pitt
and Angelina Jolie, the actors who named their daughter Shiloh Nouvel
and can now claim a family waxwork at Madame Tussaud's and Grace
Kelly, whose firstborn with Prince Rainier of Monaco was the
beautiful Princess Caroline.
The research, published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, was
carried out using young Americans, who were analysed by height,
weight and apparent age - factors that can be used to judge basic
attraction levels without subjectivity. Only first-born children were
included."
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William T Goodall
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"[Microsoft’s Windows Vista] Beta 2 is a good looking operating
system with a number of new features, which will be familiar to you
if you’ve played with recent versions of Apple’s OS X." - Gary
Krakow, Columnist, MSNBC
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