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Originally posted by Sydney
I read somewhere that physical attractiveness has an evolutionary benefit, as it often indicates a healthy person. If this is correct, then physically ugly people have a higher predisposition towards medical problems. Therefore, if attractive people produce offspring among each other and unattractive people do likewise, then over time the unnattractive part of the population will degenerate into cesspitts of disease, until eventually they die off.
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Hey, I wonder if it might actually be the other way round - I wonder if maybe we're genetically programmed to find people with a high chance of survival attractive... Except for Birds of Paradise, of course...