If You’re a Beautiful Gal, Thank Your Dad

Here’s a fun (if a bit weird and hard to believe) little tidbit to start our Friday off.   A new study suggests that attractive dads create beautiful daughters, but not necessarily good looking sons.  The same study suggests that mothers, regardless of how beautiful they are, do not pass along good looking genes to their sons.  This new theory also suggests that “it is not unusual for attractive parents to produce a beautiful daughter while failing to pass on the same good looks to a son.”

You might be asking (as I did) what exactly backed up this research.  Apparently they studied “family photo albums of students, collecting images of over 100 females and 100 males and their respective biological parents taken over several years.”  Then they rated them separately for attractiveness.  The study found that “attractiveness passed from both father and mother to daughter, and also that attractive fathers were more likely to produce attractive, feminine daughters, whether the mother was attractive or not.”

I gotta say this sounds like a lot of “studying” without any real science.  Don’t you?