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A study on facial masculinity and femininity have shown the masculinity of the father's face is passed on to both their sons and daughters.<ref> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4205959/</ref> This may be beneficial to the male offspring (despite weak or non-existent relationships between male facial masculinity and their attractiveness as judges by women) though it seems to be generally detrimental to the men's female offspring, as higher levels of facial masculinity in women are generally associated with lower perceived facial attractiveness. | A study on facial masculinity and femininity have shown the masculinity of the father's face is passed on to both their sons and daughters.<ref> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4205959/</ref> This may be beneficial to the male offspring (despite weak or non-existent relationships between male facial masculinity and their attractiveness as judges by women) though it seems to be generally detrimental to the men's female offspring, as higher levels of facial masculinity in women are generally associated with lower perceived facial attractiveness. | ||
A study on the inheritance of parental facial attractiveness and their adult children's facial attractiveness, at the collegiate age, shows about 70% of daughter's facial attractiveness is inherited from the parent's genes with the father's genes playing a slightly larger role in the daughter's facial attractiveness compared to the mother's genes. With the rest of the variance being epigenetic in nature (diet regimens, stress, nutrition status, toxin exposure levels, pharmacological medications, grooming etc.) In contrast about 10% of son's facial attractiveness is inherited from the parent's genes with the mother's genes playing the majority role in the son's facial attractiveness compared to the father's genes, with the rest of the variance being epigenetic.<ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347208003928</ref> A follow up meta-analysis of attractiveness heritability, this time among twins, shows that the attractiveness level between identical, same sex, twin siblings when acne, grooming, smiling and BMI are not controlled for is mostly genetic and when those factors are controlled for, the difference in attractiveness levels are still mostly genetic for identical twin brothers, but not identical twin sisters. The variance between the attractiveness levels of non-identical and or non-same sex twins is found to be mostly epigenetic, when acne, grooming, smiling and BMI are not controlled for as well as when those factors are controlled for.<ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4096150/</ref> | |||
Facial masculinity and facial femininity are two separate scales. Low facial masculinity does not automatically mean high facial femininity. A person's face can be low in both facial masculinity as well as facial femininity; in other words, having an overall androgynous appearance. The facial masculinity of moms has no affect on the facial masculinity of offspring. | Facial masculinity and facial femininity are two separate scales. Low facial masculinity does not automatically mean high facial femininity. A person's face can be low in both facial masculinity as well as facial femininity; in other words, having an overall androgynous appearance. The facial masculinity of moms has no affect on the facial masculinity of offspring. | ||