dkomo wrote:
> kbc wrote:
> 
>>I am curious whether there is any scientific explanation for the
>>role  facial appearance plays in mate-selection in humans.
>>
>>Are beautiful people genetically better ( such that their survival
>>chances are more ) ? ( i am not hinting anything.  just explaining
>>my question. )
>>
> 
> 
> I don't think so.  If beautiful people were genetically better their
> numbers in the human population would increase until everybody is
> beautiful (or handsome).  Clearly this hasn't happened.  Beautiful
> people have always been in the minority. As have ugly people.  These
> are at the two ends of the bell curve.
> 
Are you aware of how ugly people _could_ be?

I think that there are plenty of other factors affecting the evolution 
human populations (including differing concepts of beauty), so one might 
not expect fixation of a beautiful phenotype to have occured.

Bob

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