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Sexual dimorphism exists in all races, but it is highest in Europeans and Inuits and lowest in Africans. Low dimorphism in Africans has been proposed to be explained by a fast/die young ecology (fast LH) favoring men who impregnate many women, hence the women are more likely left alone and hence need to exhibit male characteristics like physical dominance and dependability.{{citation needed}} | Sexual dimorphism exists in all races, but it is highest in Europeans and Inuits and lowest in Africans. Low dimorphism in Africans has been proposed to be explained by a fast/die young ecology (fast LH) favoring men who impregnate many women, hence the women are more likely left alone and hence need to exhibit male characteristics like physical dominance and dependability.{{citation needed}} | ||
The relation of beauty to health and ability is | The relation of beauty to health and ability is mostly only relevant for extreme cases like disfigurement, certain syndromes and skin rashes and the like. | ||
Sexually dimorphic beauty and health are rather unrelated when disregarding these extremes,<ref>Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are</ref> but slight fitness advantages could have still initiated runaway sexual selection which then lead to a narrowing and strengthening of mate preferences and their corresponding sexually dimorphic features. There are racial differences in sexually dimorphic beauty which may explain racist emotions to some extent because subtle facial dissimilarities may violate the sensitive criteria that have evolved divergently in each race in sexual feedback loops, causing us to perceive some features of other races as ugly. | Sexually dimorphic beauty and health are rather unrelated when disregarding these extremes,<ref>Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are</ref> but slight fitness advantages could have still initiated runaway sexual selection which then lead to a narrowing and strengthening of mate preferences and their corresponding sexually dimorphic features. There are racial differences in sexually dimorphic beauty which may explain racist emotions to some extent because subtle facial dissimilarities may violate the sensitive criteria that have evolved divergently in each race in sexual feedback loops, causing us to perceive some features of other races as ugly. | ||