Evolving Tastes

A recent study shows that women on the pill prefer men with healthier looking faces than women who are not on the pill. Although on average women prefer men with healthier facial features (i.e. not pale), researchers found that women on the pill are significantly more likely to choose the person with the healthier face.

You would think that women would be less discriminating since the chances of pregnancy is lower when on the pill, but the researchers have an anthropologic-evolutionary explantion. The reason they say probably lies in the fact that the pill raises progesterone levels in women. This is the same hormone produced by women in abundance during pregnancy. The researchers claim that the evolved strategies of women would be to protect the child they are carrying thus, to keep away from potential carriers of diseases. Some guys just can't get lucky :)