If you are saying that natural selection is the way we choose our mates, and "our brain looks for health," then why did the social perceptions of beauty change? Consider times 200 years ago, when beauty was not necessarily in line with health. People generally thought overweight was beauty, as gluttony was seen as wealth, which constituted a worthy mate. If you were fit, it meant that you had to do hard manual labor, which placed you in a lower social class, unable to indulge in the habits of the upper class. How then, can natural selection truly be the way we choose our partners? A: It is not the only factor- society and media play a huge role in defining beauty.
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If you are saying that natural selection is the way we choose our mates, and "our brain looks for health," then why did the social perceptions of beauty change? Consider times 200 years ago, when beauty was not necessarily in line with health. People generally thought overweight was beauty, as gluttony was seen as wealth, which constituted a worthy mate. If you were fit, it meant that you had to do hard manual labor, which placed you in a lower social class, unable to indulge in the habits of the upper class. How then, can natural selection truly be the way we choose our partners? A: It is not the only factor- society and media play a huge role in defining beauty.
July 31, 2010 - 7:29amThis Comment
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