Art De Vany hypothesizes on the link between Conquest and the Beauty Gene, prompted by some fellow golfers describing a hot Russian “dancer” at a Vegas club:
I said she comes from a place where only the most beautiful women survived the Mongol conquests and mated with the wildest, fiercest males. I described the shape of the head and eyes of these women and likened them to the bust of Lenin, a wild, fierce man who was strikingly handsome as well. A touch of a Mongol brow over a European head, with a high forehead and a slight triangular shape, rounded at the top. I said she also had an hour glass shape because a woman must have wide hips to deliver a baby with such a head. Put these factors together and you have a real beauty. I said maybe there is something to this Russian bride thing and I think we all went away thinking we might see if we can find a web site.
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You also get such women in other parts of the world where conquest and beauty come together; in the regions of France that the German tribes overran often (my part of the world, being German and French, with a French name). In Constantinopol where the Mongols killed everyone but the beautiful women. Images of Afghanistani women (now that they are free to shed their burkas) show this kind of wild beauty; they are Caucasian, not Arab, but come from a hilly terrain where local wars and wife stealing has gone on for eons. In the regions of Europe where the Vikings pillaged I bet you would see the same kind of beauty and fierceness in the people. Men’s Journal claims that the most beautiful women on Earth are in Greenland. Not so much a place of conquest as one settled by a people who stole women from many parts of the world. Combine this with a narrowing of the gene pool amongst a small population subject to brutal conditions and you get survival of only the most beautiful women.