The Girl child pay the price for Daddy's rugged good looks!

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. 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. ‘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. ‘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.’