Are Women Getting More Beautiful? 834
FelxH writes "Scientists have found that evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful, while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors.
The researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female. Those daughters, once adult, also tend to be attractive and so repeat the pattern." I just thought my
standards were changing as I got older, but it turns out it's just science!
Evolution has nothing to do with it (Score:5, Funny)
It's called Photoshop.
Does it matter? (Score:5, Funny)
news for nerds? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm confused, how does this help the average slashdotter? Perhaps you are just reminding the readers that an even higher proportion of women are out of their league. Salt in the wound, my friend.
Re:As a male... (Score:5, Funny)
What downside? That's what the Internet is for.
Thanks to technology, you can see more boobs in an hour than your dad had in his entire stack of Playboys, and than your grandfather did during his entire life.
Useful.. (Score:3, Funny)
"Sorry it's not you it's evolution, younger women these days are just much more attractive".
Causation? (Score:5, Funny)
Are beer sales up?
Re:Evolution has nothing to do with it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bullshit (Score:5, Funny)
36 - 24 - 36.
Re:Bullshit (Score:3, Funny)
You are just bitter cause you are ugly, in a very objective way...
Re:Evolution has nothing to do with it (Score:3, Funny)
No, it's called beer.
I can assure you... (Score:5, Funny)
Not in Liverpool. Looking at the women on dating sites for this city is like looking at a freak show. Seriously.
It's so easy (Score:5, Funny)
The researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female. Those daughters, once adult, also tend to be attractive and so repeat the pattern.
So easy a caveman can do it.
evolution versus creation? (Score:5, Funny)
If evolution is making women more attractive, does creation have the inverse effect?
Re:Bullshit (Score:5, Funny)
36 - 24 - 36
Only if she's 5'3"
Re:Does it matter? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:As a male... (Score:5, Funny)
Thanks to technology, you can see more boobs in an hour than your dad had in his entire stack of Playboys, and than your grandfather did during his entire life.
Speak for your own grandfather. My grandfather was part of the army that liberated Paris. I'm told that the French were most appreciative..... ;)
Re:Wrong-o on the male-o (Score:5, Funny)
I guess men from the Renaissance were the same as us, except highly compressible.
They weren't any more or less compressible, they just used a more efficient algorithm.
Re:Evolution has nothing to do with it (Score:2, Funny)
Think of beer as "analog Photoshop".
What's the rate? (Score:4, Funny)
So, how many millihelens per century is beauty incresign by?
my wife is proof of evolution? (Score:5, Funny)
Huh. I had no idea that watching my wife grow in beauty over 15 years was watching evolution in process. Nice.
This discovery has lead to the solution to a particular slashdot meme.
a. Yes, this post is sappy and sentimental.
b. Yes, I am sending my wife a link to this post.
c. Yes, the kids are going to bed early tonight.
d. Profit!!!
Re:Wrong-o on the male-o (Score:1, Funny)
Yes, it involved a guillotine.
Re:news for nerds? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So beauty is measured in pounds? (Score:4, Funny)
Women aged 20-29 were nearly 29 pounds heavier on average in 2002 compared to 1960. Women aged 40-49 were about 25.5 pounds heavier on average in 2002 compared to 1960.
83.4% of this was in the breasts however - note that the specific gravity of Silicon is ~ 2.3
Re:As a male... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Evolution has nothing to do with it (Score:3, Funny)
This is all theoretical of course... it's difficult to procreate via webcam.
Be that as it may... (Score:1, Funny)
Women who are interested in *me* are in no way whatsoever getting more beautiful.
Re:Evolution has nothing to do with it (Score:5, Funny)
If you soak her in warm salt water and scorch her in 100 degree heat for for a few hours and she still looks good in a bikini standing under the noonday sun you know that at the very least, she either looks good naturally or has modifications of some permanence.
Re:Evolution has nothing to do with it (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed, everybody knows that beauty is in the eye of the beer holder!
Re:The birth part is silly. (Score:4, Funny)
Because it's getting crowdy on this little planet.
2/3 of the surface area is unused.
Re:DEFINE: Subjectivity (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What's the rate? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DEFINE: Subjectivity (Score:5, Funny)
See the mothers in the park,
They're rather ugly chiefly.
Someone must have loved them once,
But in the dark, and briefly.
Re:DEFINE: Subjectivity (Score:2, Funny)
You sound fat.
Re:DEFINE: Subjectivity (Score:3, Funny)
If you mention to someone in the 1920's that one can get arrested for photoshoping a pic of Miley Cyrus (16 years old), they'd look at you funny.
Yeah, and they'd want to know what's photoshop and who's Miley Cyrus.
Re:DEFINE: Subjectivity (Score:1, Funny)
My former favorite "Here I sit all broken hearted" seems kind of dull compared to that masterpiece.
Came to shit but only farted?
Income and tax is public information (Score:3, Funny)
(Americans, this may blow your mind...)
In Norway, your income, personal wealth and tax paid is public information.
Example:
http://www.skattelister.no/?do=alfalist&fy=03&k=0301&postnr=0571&firstletter=b [skattelister.no]
(in Norwegian)
Click on one of the names if you like. I'm in that list, as well as every other Norwegian. (Coworkers, managers, the prime minister.)