Does a girl pay a price for Daddy's rugged good looks? Scientists say girls could inherit father's macho features
Published: 11:12 AEDT, 27 November 2013 | Updated: 20:07 AEDT, 27 November 2013 Show
Marrying a tall, dark and ruggedly handsome man may be every woman’s dream – but it could be bad news for any daughter they produce. For she is likely to inherit some of her father’s macho traits, a study shows. Scientists say that children who have beautiful parents have up to a 70 per cent likelihood of
being attractive too.  Scientists say that children who have beautiful parents have up to 70 per cent likelihood of being attractive too (stock image) But while a good-looking woman who has children with a macho man may well produce eye-catchingly handsome sons, the attractiveness of any daughter may suffer as some of her father’s manliness would be passed on. ‘If you want to have good-looking kids you should marry someone who is good looking. That would be the simplest analysis,’ said researcher Professor Tim Bates from Edinburgh University. But he added:
‘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. But a daughter is likely to inherit her father's macho traits a new study has revealed (stock image) ‘Which means probably women won’t evolve preferences for highly masculine men because there as many costs as there are benefits in their children.’ The international study, published in the journal Behavior Genetics, involved 1,580 people aged 15 to 22 in the US and Australia having their looks assessed by eight judges. It concluded sons and daughters both get good looks from good parental genes. ‘There is the popular misquotation of Shakespeare that beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ Professor Bates said. ‘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. Are attractive parents more likely to have attractive children?Do attractive couples make attractive kids? No, not always. It's not entirely about what the parents look like, it mostly depends on genetics and the luck of the draw. If you look at super models, most of them have average looking parents.
Are physically attractive parents more likely to have daughters?Childhood beauty predicts the sex of the first child 40 years later. Physically more attractive parents are more likely to have daughters than physically less attractive parents, both in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
Which parent determines attractiveness?This allowed the researchers to look at the genetic component of attractiveness. They found that attractiveness is hereditary, passed on from father to son. Previous research has shown that females that mate with attractive males do not produce more offspring than those mating with less desirable males.
Do attractive people always have attractive kids?That is not always the case. It doesn't matter if a couple is attractive or not as beauty is a mix of genetics and culture. In some cases, children could look more like their less attractive grandparents than their parents.
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