Quote: (12-30-2013 09:23 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
Hmmmm.... maybe, but other parts of human body are quite well optimized for their tasks, both in the practical and aesthetic sense. Wouldn't the genes that result in such awful teeth be weeded out of existence (or at least reduced to 1/100000 level) as quickly as the genes that result in chronically inflamed skin, or autoimmune disorders? There has to be something other than genetics...
If that were true then there wouldn't be any ugly people either.
Truth is that our evolution isn't over. In general, we haven't changed much for thousands of years because society happened probably.
I think that for most of nature's needs, beauty isn't all that important. Get people to be reasonably healthy, fit, and attractive, and then they can survive and reproduce in a society indefinitely.
However, just like humans can experience greater suffering than animals, we also have a greater appreciation of joy and beauty (as far as I know, I could be wrong).
That's why a human would go into into a supermarket and inspect all the packets of steak or eggs before making a purchase and a lion would just tear into it. It would take a really rancid piece of meat to deter a lion.
I think that, in general, as groups go from the survival stage (like the lion, or living in bad conditions like third world or ghetto) into the higher economic brackets, there is a correlation on quality expectation.
Maybe this explains the stereotype that black guys tend to go for fat chicks more than white guys (based on the assumption that, on the whole, black guys in America don't yet have as much money as white guys.. except for people who don't tip well like Jay-Z), but we'd have to look at a place like Ireland and see if poor whites are also going for fat white girls.