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28/11/2013
It added that children who are said to have beautiful parents, have up to a 70% likelihood of being attractive as well. However, while a good-looking woman who has children with an attractive man could produce equally handsome sons, it has been said the attractiveness of a daughter could suffer as she could inherit some of her father's masculinity.
The study, which has been published in the journal Behavior Genetics, involved 1,580 people aged between 15 and 22 in the US and Australia. Their looks were assessed by eight judges, and overall, it concluded that sons and daughters get their good looks from good parental genes.
Commenting on the findings, researcher Professor Tim Bates from Edinburgh University said: "If you want to have good-looking kids you should marry someone who is good looking. That would be the simplest analysis.
"If a woman was picking a mate who seemed very attractive because he was very masculine, she would be possibly making her sons more appealing but equally making her daughters less attractive.
"Which means probably women won't evolve preferences for highly masculine men because there as many costs as there are benefits in their children.
"There is the popular misquotation of Shakespeare that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If that was true then you might think those eight judges would prefer totally different people, but in fact they were agreeing 90 per cent of the time on the ratings.
"Inherited attractiveness could be a whole range of things from healthy hair, healthy skin, to symmetrical face, and height.
"It's a mixture you are passing on. Some things that make for attractiveness, such as being symmetrical is a good thing, and if you pass on symmetry that will make your children similarly attractive to yourself.
"But some things are valued in one sex, and either not valued or actually not liked in the other.
"Very masculine fathers will be passing that 'masculine look' on to their daughters, and that won't help when people come to rate their attractiveness."
(JP/CD)
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Girls Could Inherit Their Father's 'Macho' Looks
A new study has revealed that girls who have "ruggedly" handsome fathers, could inherit some of their dad's "macho" traits.It added that children who are said to have beautiful parents, have up to a 70% likelihood of being attractive as well. However, while a good-looking woman who has children with an attractive man could produce equally handsome sons, it has been said the attractiveness of a daughter could suffer as she could inherit some of her father's masculinity.
The study, which has been published in the journal Behavior Genetics, involved 1,580 people aged between 15 and 22 in the US and Australia. Their looks were assessed by eight judges, and overall, it concluded that sons and daughters get their good looks from good parental genes.
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Commenting on the findings, researcher Professor Tim Bates from Edinburgh University said: "If you want to have good-looking kids you should marry someone who is good looking. That would be the simplest analysis.
"If a woman was picking a mate who seemed very attractive because he was very masculine, she would be possibly making her sons more appealing but equally making her daughters less attractive.
"Which means probably women won't evolve preferences for highly masculine men because there as many costs as there are benefits in their children.
"There is the popular misquotation of Shakespeare that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If that was true then you might think those eight judges would prefer totally different people, but in fact they were agreeing 90 per cent of the time on the ratings.
"Inherited attractiveness could be a whole range of things from healthy hair, healthy skin, to symmetrical face, and height.
"It's a mixture you are passing on. Some things that make for attractiveness, such as being symmetrical is a good thing, and if you pass on symmetry that will make your children similarly attractive to yourself.
"But some things are valued in one sex, and either not valued or actually not liked in the other.
"Very masculine fathers will be passing that 'masculine look' on to their daughters, and that won't help when people come to rate their attractiveness."
(JP/CD)
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