> through eons of evolution I always wonder to what extent that attribution to slow evolutionary processes is true. There were several selective bottlenecks in

> through eons of evolution I always wonder to what extent that attribution to slow evolutionary processes is true. There were several selective bottlenecks in our ancestry, and during historic times (from which we descend) most marriages were arranged, with attractiveness playing only a very small factor. Even in modern times, only a small percentage of the population had the luxury of breeding with a partner that we consider nowadays highly attractive. Then there's the fact that up to 80% of marriages have been between first cousins or closer, which would would actually cause unattractive features. So how come we think that sexual attraction is an evolutionarily shaped mechanism There is also the feedback loop of "grooming", where, just like bees select a random bee to be groomed as a queen, humans are positively reinforcing a specific set of humans for reasons that have more to do with mass psychology than actual attraction. E.g. kings and queens are groomed as leaders and rulers, eventhough they are probably the most inbred and flawed genetic stock