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Brad and Angelina were destined to have a baby girl!

by Christina on July 30th, 2006

This is an interesting bit from the UK’s Times Online about how the evolutionary process has made baby girls more prevalent among attractive couples (and of course, they use Brad and Angelina as the prime example of their theories):

According to research, attractive parents are 26% more likely to have a daughter than a son as their first child. It is an inexorable process that has resulted in women becoming increasingly more attractive than men.

This is because of differing “evolutionary strategies” that each sex has adopted to survive, claim researchers at the London School of Economics.

While reproductive success for males depends largely on the status of the father (as sons from higher-status families inherit their position and are in turn able to protect and invest in their offspring), daughters’ reproductive successes mostly depend on their youth and attractiveness. “We have shown two things,” said Dr Satoshi Kanazawa, who led the research. “Beautiful parents have more daughters than ugly parents, because physical attractiveness is heritable and because daughters benefit from attractiveness more than sons.

*Whew* we must have just gotten in under the evolutionary guidelines, cause my first baby was a girl (and a beautiful one, if I do say so myself!). What do you all think about this?

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