An answer to Stephens question.

The other day Steve asked me why he had such good luck in finding a attractive, lovely wife (fellow blogger Karen Lanyi). I suggested that it is becuase Steve has a winning personality, is a good dresser and generally is a fun guy...but there may be a more scientific answer.

A new study by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, suggests it may be a simple supply-and-demand issue: there are more beautiful women in the world than there are handsome men. (Which is not to suggest Steve is unhandsome)

Why? Kanazawa argues it’s because good-looking parents are 36% more likely to have a baby daughter as their first child than a baby son—which suggests, evolutionarily speaking, that beauty is a trait more valuable for women than for men. The study was conducted with data from 3,000 Americans, derived from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, and was published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.

Via Freakonomics