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Sexual selection is still a thing, and unlikely to go away for the foreseeable future. Diet affects appearance, appearance affects chances to pass on your genes

• bad_user 11y ago
  If you're referring to overweight people, people with diabetes or with heart disease don't necessarily look overweight. I also don't believe that appearance affects chances to pass on your genes. The ability to have sex does. But people with a lower than average appearance score (lets say), have the option of having sex with other people having the same problem. This also bypasses the fact that human beings are very complex animals, capable of falling in love with pretty much anything, including a piece of fiction and that when looking for a partner we also end up looking at other traits. And please forgive me for my political incorrectness, but as an anecdotal experience, from what I've noticed the people that are breeding a lot (you know, the communities where families of 6 children or more are common place), well those people are downright ugly on average. Which makes sense, given that the people that are breeding a lot are usually the poor and they are ugly and in bad shape mostly due to not having access to health-care. Yet when it comes to having sex, they don't seem to care.
• danharaj 11y ago
  Sexual selection is culturally relative and most people who want to reproduce get to reproduce in most societies, i.e. there is very little sexual selection. Human appearances are very diverse, especially sexual characteristics. It is hard to come up with a characteristic of human appearance that doesn't have a large diversity of phenotypes and from this observation we can reasonably infer that appearance is not strongly selected for.