[ExI] IQ and beauty

Ivor Peter Brians ipbrians at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 14:28:26 UTC 2015


John Clark wrote:
"Why hasn't Evolution insured that everybody is beautiful?..." 

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this: 
As regards Humans, We have not been evolving "naturally" for many many years (3000'ish?). Since the advent of agriculture and medicine at least... Otherwise someone such as myself with strong myopia (poor eyesight) would not have made it to reproductive maturity (likely would have been eaten by a predator or fell off a cliff in childhood).

Ivor




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