Why Doesn't Evolution Get Rid of Ugly People?

[George P Burdell]

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Why isn?t everyone beautiful, smart and healthy? Or, in a less-polite formulation, why haven?t ugly, stupid, unhealthy people been bred out of the population?ugly people because no one will have them as mates, meaning they don?t get the chance to pass their ugliness to the next generation; stupid people because they?re outgunned in the race to financial success (that is, acquiring resources needed to survive and reproduce); unhealthy people because they die before they get a chance to reproduce?

 

[swtethan]

Alcohol

 

[Slew Foot]

Ugly people still breed, usually with other ugly people. Thus creating a downward spiral of ever increasing ugliness.

 

[IAteYourMother]

fat chicks need love too!

giggity giggity

 

[GasX]

for the same reason you survived childhood to post this thread.

 

[Phokus]

Do two beautiful people necessarily create beautiful children? Do two ugly people necessarily create ugly children? (this is not a rhetorical question, i'm genuinely interested in the answer).

 

[frodrick]

who's to say the world a long time ago wasn't filled with really super duper ugly people and today's ugly people would be the super models back then?

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
Ugly people still breed, usually with other ugly people. Thus creating a downward spiral of ever increasing ugliness.

Exactly.

 

[mooncancook]

Evolution is still a theory i think

 

[SVT Cobra]

Because ugly isn't a determining factor on whether you survive and produce off spring. Does it help to be good looking, absolutely, but no where near as determining as a genetic disease or mutation such as the ability to say...withstand a higher level of nuclear radiation.

 

[Chronoshock]

Originally posted by: Phokus
Do two beautiful people necessarily create beautiful children? Do two ugly people necessarily create ugly children? (this is not a rhetorical question, i'm genuinely interested in the answer).

This is my thinking, and my inclination is no, they don't necessarily. Physical appearance is influenced by genotype (inheritance from parents), environment, and random chance (mutations, crossover).

 

[nageov3t]

people have sex for a multitude of other reasons beyond pure physical attraction (desperation, money, love, alcohol, etc, etc.)

 

[MrWizzard]

Originally posted by: Phokus
Do two beautiful people necessarily create beautiful children? Do two ugly people necessarily create ugly children? (this is not a rhetorical question, i'm genuinely interested in the answer).

Usually yes. Me looks at parents...... NUTS.

 

[Mr Pickles]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell
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Why isn?t everyone beautiful, smart and healthy? Or, in a less-polite formulation, why haven?t ugly, stupid, unhealthy people been bred out of the population?ugly people because no one will have them as mates, meaning they don?t get the chance to pass their ugliness to the next generation; stupid people because they?re outgunned in the race to financial success (that is, acquiring resources needed to survive and reproduce); unhealthy people because they die before they get a chance to reproduce?

Resources need to provide and reproduce: Food, Water, Penis, Vagina. If thats the case then evolution has done its job - there is no isolated class of humans surviving that have adapted to life without a penis and vagina, food or water.

 

[NanoStuff]

For the same reason evolution doesn't get rid of homosexual. Evolution relies on mutation. It doesn't matter how advanced a species is, genome splicing will cause deviations that may or may not result in an ugly/homosexual/etc person, and that's not taking into account developmental differences in terms of nutrition, age of mother and so on. There will always be variety, whether a simple or advanced organism.

 

[Hammerhead]

because uglies keep on "bumpin uglies"

 

[zeruty]

Ugly people+Ugly people... Ugly people still mate
Welfare
Public health care/medicaid

 

[illusion88]

Rich people have hot daughters. It's a fact.

 

[MikeyLSU]

add to all of that that generally poorer people reproduce more. So families of higher income actually have less kids.

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

The perception of beauty differs, i like women with hips, butt and natural breasts but todays ideal seems to be anorexic with a boobjob so bad that it isn't even normal for a girl twice her size.

MrLee, i guess you included both vitamins, minerals, amino acids and fatty acids into "food", we don't really need normal reproduction to survive as a species anymore though.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
fat chicks need love too!

giggity giggity

I believe that's "Fat chicks need love too, but they gotta pay."

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: mooncancook
Evolution is still a theory i think

That's a play on words. A Scientific "Theory" is as close to a fact as science can get.

 

[ahurtt]

The answer to your question is explained in the movie, 'Idiocracy'

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: NanoStuff
For the same reason evolution doesn't get rid of homosexual. Evolution relies on mutation. It doesn't matter how advanced a species is, genome splicing will cause deviations that may or may not result in an ugly/homosexual/etc person, and that's not taking into account developmental differences in terms of nutrition, age of mother and so on. There will always be variety, whether a simple or advanced organism.

OR homosexuality (assuming its genetic) is evolution's way of population control. There are frogs that will switch sexes if one sex starts to over power the other in order to provide balance. Maybe, homosexuality is a way to say that 'hey, your population is getting out of hand, time to control it!'.

**I hope that doesn't offend anyone on this forum who maybe homosexual.

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: illusion88
Rich people have hot daughters. It's a fact.

evidence right there

rich guys attract pretty girls
= increase of beauty

thus wealth ~ beauty

theres still ugly people because

Originally posted by: MikeyLSU
poorer people reproduce more (often).