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Here’s an interesting story for all mothers and daughters. Thanks to evolution, scientists say that women – but not men – are becoming more attractive over time.

Scientists at the University of Helsinki found that attractive women have more kids than less attractive women and that more of those children are girls. When those daughters grow up, they are more likely to be attractive and the pattern is continued.

Unlike women, men are not getting more attractive because good-looking couples are less likely to have a son than a daughter. Scientists say that men are as unappealing (aesthetically speaking, at least) as their caveman brethren. Yikes.

Researchers at the University of Helsinki followed more than 2,000 American men and women over a forty year period. The scientists discovered that good-looking women had sixteen percent more children then less attractive women.

Another study at the London School of Economics found that beautiful parents are much more likely to produce daughters.

According to the researchers, physical beauty increases the reproductive success of women more than men. Since attractive parents have more daughters and beauty can be passed down to your kids, it follows that women over generations are gradually becoming more beautiful.

[via: Telegraph UK]

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