Ugliness : Evolutionary Dead End?
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Darwin Dating and Beautiful People are two online dating websites that stress the physical surface appearance of people looking for hookups and life partners.
Is this the worst abuse Darwinian evolutionary theory has been hit with outside of Intelligent Design? Or is it just plain honest?
Daniel Kruger, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Michigan, says Fox and Hodge are right — regardless of what people say they’re looking for in a mate, at least initially, they do tend to focus on appearance, both on- and off-line. “But rather than seeing this person 20 feet away you’re seeing their picture on a computer screen.”