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Is the only reason Humans are attractive is to attract a mate and bone them?
- Thread starter Threekola Miroswish
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Nature would ask why waste valuable energy on being attractive if you don't want people to be attracted to you?
So, yes.
So, yes.
Well different people find different people attractive so in a way everyone is attractive in some sort of way to someone else? Which means EVERYONE IS GETTING LAID!
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You have it backwards. Attractiveness isn't an objective characteristic, it's something humans ascribe to others for that purpose.
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We also produce pleasant smells and wear striking colors so bees can collect and spread our pollen
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Isn't that so fascinating though. Evolution made people hot as shit so members of the opposite sex wanted to plow to keep the human race going.
Absolutley fascinating
I mean what other reasons would there be besides procreation? Some ideas are worth contemplating but I'm not sure this is one of them. No offense meant to you.
Yeah, I guess so. It's a means to keep humanity going, though. A base instinct. If we didn't have it, we wouldn't have lasted.
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Like why are people born to grow up to be hot people that other people want to screw
Like how did this get programmed into evolution?
Who cares? Attractiveness gets one only so far. There are other things other than physical attractiveness that make one more likely to mate.
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No but we make allowances for people who are hot as shit to a point
Yes of course. We are animals like every other species. Our only scientific purpose is to pass on our genes and ensure our survival.
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Yes. Because we have evolved past making screeching noises and funny dances to prove our prospect as a mate, we now use our physical beauty as a measure for ones worth. Unfortunately human beings are idiots, so we use it for prejudice on several levels as well.
Like someone else already posted you're thinking backwards. We didn't evolve to be attractive we just find other humans attractive because they're human.
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But that is a whole other topic. Why do we prefer some traits over others within our species.
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There are outliers but on the whole, humans as a species know who's hot or not
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The majority of humans select a mate because they find them hot
Most of the animal kingdom selects partners because they kick up the most fuss and make themselves the most available
We are different
Most of the animal kingdom selects partners because they kick up the most fuss and make themselves the most available
We are different
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It's more that it's a convenient shorthand for communicating some form of genetic fitness. That can in turn be weaponized for differential reproductive success. (There are strategies around that, though.) Of course, you can't make attraction too strict or you risk extinction through limiting reproduction or end up with a population without members that might have certain resistances.
Then how come we still got ugly people?
Attractiveness isn't an objective advantage. In other conditions or environment one's ugliness could become one's attractiveness and vice versa. Remember evolution isn't a straight, unidirectional line.
Attractiveness isn't an objective advantage. In other conditions or environment one's ugliness could become one's attractiveness and vice versa. Remember evolution isn't a straight, unidirectional line.
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