Why Doesn't Evolution Get Rid of Ugly People?

[rainbowdemon]

Does anyone see the flawed logic in this?

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?

[Shawn]

This evolutionary narrowing doesn't happen even though for the most part those 3 groups do try to find other members of the group.

It fails for a number of reasons:

- a stupid person can be beautiful, enhancing their worth as a trophy spouse to the person with coin

- when the groupings are all coming down, Leftover Leroy looks at Loretta and says "I got the extended warranty on this TV", hot carnal action follows

- unhealthy children often grow out of it, just as bad health can come on due to lifestyle later in life; neither example would necessarily be taken into consideration when it was time to pay the "do's"

[DudeAsInCool]

beauty is in the eye of the beholder

[Excrement_Cranium]

You are all over complicating it. The answer can be found in one word: beer.

[DudeAsInCool]

You are all over complicating it. The answer can be found in one word: beer.

or...when the clock strikes midnight, all bets are off :)

[rainbowdemon]

beauty is in the eye of the beerholder

Fixed.

[Redneck4sure]

You are all over complicating it. The answer can be found in one word: beer.

a good reason to stop drinking.

[Excrement_Cranium]

a good reason to stop drinking.

Or to never stop, so you don't have to roll over and see what's in bed with you!

[slum_goddess]

Or to never stop, so you don't have to roll over and see what's in bed with you!

hahahahahahaha, good one :lol: