as I said the idea that beauty is an indicator of health is just false and philosophy (not science) try to explain where the concept of beauty came from.beauty as a concept, is very recent compared to human history I would assume. an it comes from our mind. not evolution. we assign beauty and ugly not only to human beings but to every other creature and object we encounter. we design and create objects that we think are beautiful. what was beautiful years ago, isn't now. this applies to humans, phones, cars, buildings and everything. early humans weren't groomed and you can barely see a face. back then it was all about desire to mate. desire is what evolution gave us so we can reproduce. it wasn't physical attraction. both women and men desire sex. we want sex for the pleasure of it. this desire will force us to reproduce. without desire of sex we men wouldn't get near a vagina and think of it as a beautiful elegant female part. specially a bushy early human vagina. without desire, no man would trust to put his penis where he can't see. no woman would want a foreign, size shifting object sticking out from a bush inside of her body injecting her with a weird liquid that smells funny. here I describe sex without sexy words and it sounds scary not beautiful. not to mention that these parts are near our smelly sewage system. I would assume early humans had some peaces of sh*t hanging around that bush somewhere. did they smell good? did they shower at all in that cave hiding from the tiger near the river?Nobody believes it to be a perfect correlation, but it's generally reliable.
if a woman is attracted to a man for what he provides, it is her thinking not evolution. if she wants a beautiful man, it's her thinking not evolution. women do look up. men used to look up in old times and marry those with a proper family heritage. one got stuck with habit.
human culture not evolution have put lots of restriction on human sexual encounters. human culture came up with beauty as a concept as they came up with other concepts. evolution gave us desire to reproduce. we forgot that we have minds and consciousness that influences our thinking and decisions in life and we attribute everything to evolution saying we are programmed to think a certain way. the code seems to change from culture to culture. didn't we come up from a common ancestor? we write our own code based on our experience in life and how that experience make us feel.
god, I just realized that I wrote an essay in reply to a one line. I think I should write a book on the subject.
@Pelopeleon who disliked my previous post, you re free to do so, but my post wasn't offensive in any way and was free of any personal insults. it is just an opinion on the matter that I can say and you re free to disagree, reply and contribute to the matter.