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#432 - Geoffrey Miller - An Evolutionary Psychologist's Dating Advice
Modern Wisdom
Why Do We Find Beautiful People Attractive?
Beauty is partly a legi indicator of health, fertility and youth. But then there'se certain parts of beauty in our species that are kind of arbitrary. Like the fact that we have green or blue eyes rather than dark eyes. If you're from, like, northern opean population. Is that really adaptive in terms of like promoting a survival better? Or is it just, oh, if you migrate to northern latitude out of africa a hundred, 50 thousand years ago, you don't need a dark iris any more to protect your iris from bright sun?"
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