WOMEN are gradually becoming more attractive in an evolutionary "beauty race", according to the latest scientific research.

Beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts, and a higher proportion of those children are girls, a study claims.

These daughters, once adult, also tend to be attractive, so the pattern continues.

Examples of beautiful celebrity mothers with equally beautiful daughters who are models include Jerry Hall, and her two daughters Elizabeth and Georgia Jagger, and Yasmin Le Bon and daughter Amber – who has recently modelled swimwear. This pattern has led to women becoming steadily more beautiful over the generations, say scientists...........