Beauty or the Beast?

Baby girls. For Brangelina, Bennifer, and TomKat. And, it's no surprise to evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa.

In fact, good-looking parents are 36 percent more likely to give birth to a girl than less-attractive couples -- which also explains why women are, on average, better looking than men, argues Kanazawa, a professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

But why are beautiful people more likely to have girls? Kanazawa's explanation is way complicated. Let's just stick with my attempt to explain this. To continue the species, we must have, uh, let's refer to it as reproduction. And, given that it's a given men value physical attractiveness more than women do when looking for a mate, it's much better for the girls to have the good looks so that a man will chose her and reproduction will continue. Got it? (Yes, I know. Shallow of them, isn't it?)

Whatever. As I've noted before, I'm an only child and a girl. My parents didn't have the "son." Well guess what, Mom and Dad, it's because you are beautiful people. The next time your friends are bragging about their sons, just let them know how sad you are for them that they aren't as good looking as you are.