Comments on: Meta Attractiveness http://jonti.org/intelligent-society/meta-attractiveness Building connections between ideas. Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David http://jonti.org/intelligent-society/meta-attractiveness/comment-page-1#comment-412 David Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:23:05 +0000 http://jonti.org/?p=204#comment-412 But don't you think natural selection would have already programmed us to do that? what i mean is that a gene that causes us to desire the most 'attractive' woman with whom we do not have the most attractive offspring would not be as prolific as a gene that causes us to find attractive the woman with whom we could have the most physically attractive children? The initial scenario you've described seems to be a case of poor natural selection, where big-nosed men find medium-nosed women attractive. Genes that cause such behavioral tendencies would not multiply well assuming that medium-large noses (in the offspring) are not all that desirable. And isn't there evidence that what people find attractive IS dependent on the person's own physical characteristics? That very thin people are attracted to women with shapely curves (Tyler, for example). In any case, i wonder if the random lottery of meiosis overwhelms any such selection... after all, any gene from any parent only has a 50% chance of getting passed on. But don’t you think natural selection would have already programmed us to do that? what i mean is that a gene that causes us to desire the most ‘attractive’ woman with whom we do not have the most attractive offspring would not be as prolific as a gene that causes us to find attractive the woman with whom we could have the most physically attractive children? The initial scenario you’ve described seems to be a case of poor natural selection, where big-nosed men find medium-nosed women attractive. Genes that cause such behavioral tendencies would not multiply well assuming that medium-large noses (in the offspring) are not all that desirable.

And isn’t there evidence that what people find attractive IS dependent on the person’s own physical characteristics? That very thin people are attracted to women with shapely curves (Tyler, for example).

In any case, i wonder if the random lottery of meiosis overwhelms any such selection… after all, any gene from any parent only has a 50% chance of getting passed on.

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