Just read an article on Evolutionary Biology and the selection of mates and how beautiful parents tend to produce daughters while tall and rugged parents tend to produce sons. Found a website www.alphadominance.com which has many interesting articleson the subjects of evolutionary attraction, mating….

“Beauty is highly prized by humans as prospective traits in potential mates. Despite many unctuous diatribes by those who would have us see more than skin deep, people continue to sort themselves for procreative purposes in accordance with their attractiveness, both physical and material. Because beautiful people have more children, and in the game of life, passing one’s genes on to more children is winning. The effect is compounded if those children themselves have greater reproductive fitness due to greater attractiveness. Thus, we all seek the most attractive partner we can muster in assortive mating and the singles scene acts as a marketplace to match the highest payer with the highest priced commodity….

….another problem is that we prefer beautiful people as mates because they are better mates, both in quality and for the most part in quantity. Finally, we tend to view beautiful people as superior in other ways like intelligence, honesty and competence. Sound unfair? Well like most stereotypes they are based in fact. We see beautiful people as smarter because on the whole, they are.

These views are heresy to social scientists, psychologists and feminists, but they are grounded in fact. Once again biology is shown to be heartless and unfeeling. As the old saying goes Nature is red in tooth and claw, and I would add, short on feel-good egalitarian dogma. Whether we like this fact or not we all must learn to live with it. We should not sell ourselves short in some futile attempt to correct natural law. When selecting our mates and partners we should be armed with full knowledge of the facts, and the knowledge that our instincts will guide us to the best reproductive matches there are. Don’t waste your time trying to correct a system that has worked so well for so long. Fairness does not promote genetic and reproductive success. It may be useful for social policy but dating is not an equal opportunity marketplace.”

Indeed, it’s not an equal opportunity marketplace. Like the jungle, there are rules of survival and the ones who abided and played by the rules will survive and thrive.