# Why do we still have ugly people?

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2007-07-12
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2007/07/12/why-do-we-still-have-ugly-people/
- Categories: essay

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Why do we still have ugly people? You'd think that evolution would try and kill off anyone with an undesirable/unlikeable trait right? But, <a target="_blank" href="http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2007/06/27/why-doesn-t-evolution-get-rid-of-ugly-people.aspx" title="Why doesn't evolution get rid of ugly people?">still we not only have ugly people, we also have unhealthy and stupid people</a> [especially humans]!!

So are beauty, health and intelligence overrated?

I mean if evolution were to pick and choose the traits in humans for a better race. After all, we have been around for about 200,000 years [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapien]. That would mean that evolution would still have a minor effect on us and we would be getting more and more beautiful, healthier and more intelligent. [Isn't that what most of us strive for - to be more handsome [beautiful], healthier and fitter and more intelligent?] So, let's look @ what evolution really has done to these 3 traits...

Beautiful - apart from the receding hair present in humans, beauty is really open to debate!

Healthy - our dying age has increased, but a healthy life is open to debate!

Intelligence - ok, let's not even go into this right now!

So, what has evolution decided that would naturally evolve from humans? Or well, are we just not intelligent enough to look for _that_ trait, which has evolved?