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Follow her on Twitter. Sign in. Join YourTango Experts. Bad news, ladies. Subscribe to our newsletter. Hey You! Want more of YourTango's best articles , seriously addictive horoscopes and top expert advice? Kanazawa found that 56 percent of the most beautiful people in the survey had a daughter first compared with only 48 percent of the merely attractive, average, homely, and downright ugly people combined.
That sounds weird, but a fifty-fifty sex ratio is not always the norm. In species like red deer, spider monkeys, and Venezuelan opossums, environmental conditions strongly influence the sex mix of the offspring. Consider what happens to opossums in hard times: Since runty males might not find mates but skinny females can usually get a partner, more daughters are born. While Kanazawa's methods seem rather subjective, it is theoretically possible that—if physical attractiveness really does increase the reproductive success of daughters more than sons—natural selection could find a way to make better-looking people more likely to have daughters.
There is nothing arbitrary about the image of ideal female beauty. These are youth, long hair, small waist, large breasts, blonde hair, and blue eyes. There is evolutionary logic behind each one. This only applies to other women, and men tend to assess the interest of their sisters in other men more accurately. Interestingly enough, the same logic applies in groups. People tend to be more cautious about free-riding in a group when they are very dependent on that group.
So by staying within the household, the father can help the child accruing more wealth through fathering, education, direct transfer, and inheritance. Ironically, the more useless the gift is, the more it shows that he is willing to spend and invest. But they show strong financial firepower, and the willingness to dote. Very handsome men, do. More attractive men indeed have more sexual partners and more extra-pair sex. Instead, more attractive women have more long-term mates than short term ones.
Wealthy and high-status men are more likely to find plenty of mates, so it would make sense for rich and high-status men to have more sons than daughters.
Tall and big parents as much as violent people are also more likely to produce boys, while small parents are more likely to produce females. When it comes to long term relationships, where most children are produced, women do well for short-term and long-term mating, while beauty for men is more useful in short-term mating.
Young mothers kill their children because they have plenty of time to make more and focus on higher fitness children. Older mothers kill their children because they possibly have more children and want to focus their attention and resources on the higher fitness ones. Both matter. Women in polygynous societies hit puberty earlier to get sooner into the high-competition market. As a sign that the West is moving away from monogamy, the average age of puberty has dropped precipitously in the United States.
Thus, it makes sense for women to be less risk-oriented than men. When women must compete for males, they usually do it in more indirect ways, which also happen to be lower risk. In truth, men go on a shopping spree for cool and expensive cars because their wives are approaching menopause and they prepare themselves to attract younger women. My Note: Very interesting, however, it lacked some strong data to back it up.
Men need those resources to trade them in the sexual marketplace and attract a mate. Women make less money because they have better things to do than make money. Polygyny leaves a lot of men without a mate, which in turns makes men more desperate to scramble and risk their lives. Across all societies, polygyny increases violent crimes. Then, enter Islam, promising 72 virgins for martyrs.
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