Attractive people should be much more common due to natural selection right?
If attractive people are more likely to find a partner and thus reproduce, why are there still ugly people?
One theory is men and women are selecting for feminine and masculine traits respectively, but when said traits express in the opposite gender, it no longer looks like an expression of sexual health, just friggin weird. Ever see that comparison pick of Angelina Jolie and Steve Buscemi?
Another is that two sixty 66% attractive people can theoretically each donate their 34% ugliest genes within the 50 they are contributing to their offspring and make a 68% ugly baby. They could also make a hyperattractive baby by contributing 50% pulled from their own 66% attractive genes. That’s just the random shuffle of Mendelian genetics.
Third is that sexual selection seems to follow stabilizing selection, ie you’re attracted to the most average mean of all the traits you see in your formative years. This means if you pull somebody from one part of the world where the population genetics have been strongly moving in one direction, and put them in a community where a different set of traits is the norm, and theirs never seen, that population is mostly gonna think they look weird. This is less of an issue in a world where people move around though, and explains racism more than it explains ugly.