Novel echoes the battle of the sexes: women embezzlement generation to generation, while men retain the same characteristics as their ancestors, the caveman. Focus on the strange inequality of the sexes.
Is it due to progress in the world of cosmetics, or even to cosmetic surgery? Not really. If women become more beautiful, this is due to reasons more "natural". Indeed, scientists at the University of Helsinki have shown that beautiful women had more children than the less pretty and a larger proportion of their children were girls. Once adults, these girls went on to become beautiful women and reproduce the same pattern.
In their study, Markus Jokela, demonstrating that the most beautiful women were 16% for children more than their congeners less spoiled by nature. To obtain these results, the researcher was based on a U.S. study that followed 40 years of 1 244 women and 997 men.
The beauty is a subjective value, the study determined the rate of appeal of persons, taking photo at different times in their lifetime (test not devoid of subjectivity, however ...). The study also took into account the number of children.
Result: people whose physical does not, however, is less social pressure. The most attractive men may not have more children than others, unlike women. Does this mean that all men are equal before the love? No and the answer is more pragmatic than poetic ... As one psychologist at the University of Central Lancashire: "For women, the appearance of a man is less important than its ability to take care of her when she is pregnant and after delivery. Historically, this explains that rich men tend to have more women and more children. The pressure of men is in their success. “Love, glory and beauty ...
Beyond the side "offset" of these results, we nevertheless seriously question their validity ... It may be noted that the beauty (subjective criterion) depends as much or more environmental criteria (including makeup, hair, even the use of cosmetic surgery) and genetic criteria. In addition, see on a time scale too short for an evolution of the human species is scientifically questionable. Finally, do not take into account parameters such as access to contraception or the possible cases of infertility and have the preamble that "women have the primary desire to have many children" are all reservations, which severely limits the 'scientific interest in this study ...