Women becoming more beautiful with each passing generation

A higher proportion of children of these attractive women are females. These daughters, when they grow up, tend to become beautiful themselves and hence the pattern is repeated over the generations.

The findings of the study essentially point to the fact that, over generations, women have gradually become more aesthetically lovely.

Beauty has increased over the years
The findings are an output from a series of studies which examined the link between physical attractiveness and reproductive success in human beings.

Markus Jokela, a researcher at the University of Helsinki, followed 1,244 women and 997 men in America through four decades of life.

The good looks of the participants were gauged from the photographs taken during the study. Data on the number of children they had was also collated during the course of the study.

The study found that gorgeous women had up to 16 percent more children. Researchers also confirmed that beautiful women are 36 percent more likely to have a daughter than a son as their first born child.

This pattern has led to women becoming steadily more beautiful over the generations, claim scientists.

Examples of beautiful celebrity mother-daughter duos bear testimony to the findings. Jerry Hall, and her two daughters Elizabeth and Georgia Jagger, and Yasmin Le Bon and daughter Amber are a case in point.

That study also found that the beauty gap between men and women is increasing. Thus men remain as aesthetically unattractive as their caveman ancestors.

Conforms to previous studies
The findings of the present study corroborate the previous work by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics.

Kanazawa had, in the year 2006, established through his study that good-looking parents were far more likely to conceive daughters.

"Physical attractiveness is a highly heritable trait, which disproportionately increases the reproductive success of daughters much more than that of sons," Kanazawa noted.

“If more attractive parents have more daughters and if physical attractiveness is heritable, it logically follows that women over many generations gradually become more physically attractive on average than men,” he added.