You got a hot mom? Chances are your wife will be a looker, too.

A new study of facial features adds to mounting evidence that a man tends to choose a girlfriend who resembles his mother, and a woman picks a boyfriend who looks like her father.

Using mom or dad as a mating guide may be evolutionary insurance against mating with the wrong species, a possible throwback to a time when multiple hominids lived together, says an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Aberdeen in the U.K.

So apparently if you’re desperate about a girl – its time to grab a photo of her dad and get yourself some makeup and even cosmetic surgery.

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