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Some simple and elegant body shapes may not necessarily be a result of aesthetic selection, but e.g. from optimizing for resources efficiency or resiliance, but again feedback looks could have sharpened and strengthened the sexual attraction to such shapes. | Some simple and elegant body shapes may not necessarily be a result of aesthetic selection, but e.g. from optimizing for resources efficiency or resiliance, but again feedback looks could have sharpened and strengthened the sexual attraction to such shapes. | ||
Attraction to sexually dimorphic beauty also increases fitness because seeking out the opposite sex is necessary for reproduction. | Attraction to sexually dimorphic beauty also increases fitness because seeking out the opposite sex is necessary for reproduction. | ||
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. | 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 | 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. | ||
Beauty is often perceived to be associated with various positive traits [[Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are|to unreasonable degree]], which is called the ''beauty-is-good stereotype'', a certain kind of [[halo effect]]. This is likely caused by neuronal circuits for beauty simply causing positive emotions, regarding the person in question as high status and high value, possibly partly in attempt to appeasing them in subconscious attempt to gain some benefits from the relationship with a high status person. | Beauty is often perceived to be associated with various positive traits [[Scientific_Blackpill#Attractive_people_are_perceived_much_more_positively_than_they_really_are|to unreasonable degree]], which is called the ''beauty-is-good stereotype'', a certain kind of [[halo effect]]. This is likely caused by neuronal circuits for beauty simply causing positive emotions, regarding the person in question as high status and high value, possibly partly in attempt to appeasing them in subconscious attempt to gain some benefits from the relationship with a high status person. | ||
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}} | |||
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. | |||
== Beautiful behavior == | == Beautiful behavior == | ||