Attractive fathers do not pass their looks on to sons

[Auzgurl]

By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent
Last Updated: 6:24PM GMT 29 Oct 2008

Psychologists have found that while both parents influence the attractiveness of their daughters, male attractiveness is not inherited.

Handsome men with masculine looks are likely to pass on masculine features, but not facial attractiveness.

Prof David Perrett and Prof Elisabeth Cornwell, of the University of St Andrews, also said that a mother's beauty made no difference to the attractiveness of her sons as adults.

The theory suggests it is not unusual for attractive parents to produce a beautiful daughter while failing to pass on the same good looks to a son.

While many celebrity mothers produce stunning daughters - such as Goldie Hawn and her daughter Kate Hudson or Jerry Hall and her daughter Georgia - the same is not necessarily true of celebrity fathers.

Sean Stewart, the son of Rod Stewart and his first wife Alana, would probably be judged less attractive than his model sister Kimberly.

Prof Perrett said it has previously been suggested that a woman could increase her own reproductive success by choosing a "sexy" mate whose genes would be passed on to male offspring, making them irresistible to the next generation.

But the new study, published in the current edition of the journal Animal Behaviour, contradicts the theory.

He said: "We checked to see if male and female facial traits are inherited. For the male line, we find that facial masculinity conforms to the rule 'like father - like son'. Masculine dads have masculine sons.

"But we did not find any evidence that facial attractiveness is passed from father to son.

"We are perplexed as to why we did not find any evidence for the inheritance of attractiveness in males, through either the female or male parent.

"The answer may be because women vary considerably in the extent to which they find masculinity attractive.

"We know that attractive feminine women show a strong preference for masculine male faces for long-term partners."

The researchers studied the family photo albums of students, collecting images of over 100 females and 100 males and their respective biological parents taken over several years.

The photos of each student, father and mother were rated separately for attractiveness, and for femininity/masculinity.

They found evidence 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.

Earlier research in America found that attractive parents were 26 per cent more likely to have a daughter than a son as their first child - a statistic apparently borne out by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's first child.

In that study the researches concluded that "beautiful parents have more daughters than ugly parents".

Copied this article from OP but the link does not appear to work..sorry...

If you are male make do you look like your mother..female do you look like your father..I know its true for my family..

[mantra.]

Yes same here. You see it everywhere - daughters when they're young always look like their fathers, but turn into their mothers when they get older, whereas sons take after their mothers, but turn into their fathers when they're older. Strange how genes work.

So females - if they want a pretty daughter - need to choose an attractive father, because their daughter is going to look just like him.

[JW Frogen]

I am a good looking man (sorry too many women have told me such) and my son is extreamly cute, people stopping in stores to look at him cute, but I suppose this does not mean he will grow up hansome, though every Frogen male has.

One thing he has the the Frogen dick, lucky boy.

[Auzgurl]

I am a good looking man (sorry too many women have told me such) and my son is extreamly cute, people stopping in stores to look at him cute, but I suppose this does not mean he will grow up hansome, though every Frogen male has.

One thing he has the the Frogen dick, lucky boy.

Dont be sorry for being good looking Frogen ..Even if your boy does not eventually look like you he got the most important thing of all...

btw..size is only part of the equation Frogen..

[Jovial Monk]

Mothers pass a bit more genetic material (the X chromosone) to their sons than the father does (Y chromosome is small.)

[Aussie]

What is the preferred vagina size these days? Much has been posted about Frogen's alleged huge blue veined junket pump, but I've seen little on the sausage wallet?

[boxy]

Psychologists have found...

Psychologists? What do they know about genes and physiology?

[AiA in Atlanta]

Robert Redford and his son were on the cover of a local Atlanta magazine last month. They both are involved in a local charity. The son has none of the father's looks and sadly looks to be the same age as his father and he is only in his late 40's.

[Auzgurl]

On the left a young Elvis Presley age 18 and on the right his grandson Ben Keough..age 15..

It is clear Ben has a strong likeness to his grandfather. It is even more apparent if I could have copied the correct size to this site...

So Lisa looks like her dad and Ben looks like his mother...mmm

[AiA in Atlanta]

On the left a young Elvis Presley age 18 and on the right his grandson Ben Keough..age 15..

It is clear Ben has a strong likeness to his grandfather. It is even more apparent if I could have copied the correct size to this site...

So Lisa looks like her dad and Ben looks like his mother...mmm

Elvis' wife was hot hot hot back in the day. B4 my time but I have seen photos. Now she looks like the victim of bad cosmetic surgery.