I guess there are two ways to look at this. One is that successful (high status) men can attract more physically attractive women. Due to their status they can afford to provide a better environment for their mate and the resulting children.
Lets imagine that their were a dozen children. It could be that overtime enough female children can be born who are “curvy” and intelligent and those children would go on to procreate more so than their less curvy siblings. The idea is that, in time, traits such as curviness and intelligence could appear together in a disproportionate amount in a population as intelligent men constantly select for it and then you will have some of those men with genes from their mother and maternal grandmother for “curviness” in females which which will create a loop.
It should also be taken into account that “curvy” women have higher fertility rates in general due to hormonal reasons on top of men seeking them out more.
I am assuming that the study normed for race/ethnicity, for example, African Americans are more likely to have an hour glass shape than white Americans.
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Update: BBC Reports that curvy women have more intelligent children, but they themselves are also more intelligent than waif-like women.
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Beauty Beat: Sharp Curves
Booty and brains sit well together. Curvy-figured mothers have children with better cognitive abilities.
By:Corey Binns
A woman’s eye-popping hourglass figure offers drooling men more than just an irresistible image. Shapely hips and thighs hold essential nutrients that nurse brains and could produce smart kids too, say Steven Gaulin of the University of California at Santa Barbara and William Lassek of the University of Pittsburgh.
“Men respond because it’s reproductively important,” Lassek says. At a meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Lassek and Gaulin revealed that women with low waist-to-hip ratios (WHR) have children with better cognitive abilities than less curvy mothers.
The explanation lies in omega-3 fatty acids, which are tucked in the hips and thighs and also compose much of the human brain. Girls begin storing these fatty acids below the waist once puberty hits. The body hoards the biological building blocks in anticipation of a woman’s third trimester of pregnancy, when the fetal brain is in its most rapid stages of development. Lower body weight loss continues until the child stops breast-feeding. (Eating more omega-3s while expecting and nursing can contribute to development, but the body prefers its own reserves.) Meanwhile, waist fat increases brain-harming inflammation and is low in the fatty acids—not to mention its contribution to diabetes and heart disease.
Previous research had suggested the padding provides babies with a sturdy supply of energy. But, Lassek points out, “if it’s just for energy, why not have fat on your back?” Now wouldn’t that be sexy.
I have known dozens of both men and women who are either not”curvy”, or who are”curvy”and overweight who have children who are both attractive and intelligent. So perhaps you should get to know more people before jumping to such conclusions.
Carol:
This is about averages not individuals. I know women taller than men. Does that mean most women are taller then men?
The only way to tell that is to do a study, not rely on personal observation. I have no way of knowing if what I see everyday is “average” or “the norm” and neither do you.
These are not my conclusions, they are scientific conclusions done by experts based on statistical study.
“Lets imagine that THEIR were a dozen children.”
hehe
Clearly the author is not the child of a curvy woman.
The negative feedback on this post reminded me of certain popular slang expression, “Don’t hate the player, hate the game.”
I enjoyed the article