![]() ![]() For women, the authors found that offspring attractiveness was used to adjust judgments of a parent's attractiveness and that this effect was most evident for adult-infant pairs identified as biologically related. authors tested this possibility by asking women and men to rate the facial attractiveness of adults identified as parents whose faces were shown alone or with a child (identified as either their own child or an adopted child). If offspring can inherit fitness-enhancing genes, the offspring's attractiveness might serve as an additional cue for assessing a parent's genotypic quality. ![]() It has been proposed that this bias is adaptive for choosing high-quality mates because attractive individuals are more likely to carry fitness-enhancing genes. ![]() Most adults prefer attractive individuals and treat them more favorably. ![]()
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