[ExI] IQ and beauty

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 07:09:51 UTC 2015


On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:33 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why hasn't Evolution insured that everybody is beautiful? I can think of 2
> reasons and they both involve sex:
>

### Seeing everybody as beautiful means you are unable to look at potential
mates and rank them according to their fitness. Such failure is likely to
be costly for your own fitness, which explains why evolution weeded out
beauty-blind men and power-blind women.

Rafał
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