~| Why Do Ugly People Still Exist? |~

i see nothing wrong with the second man's face apart from his teeth. face looks normal.

curious. what evidence do you have to support this? 500 years ago people looked much the same as we do today. 1 million years ago, maybe.

Why haven't their impure genes been bred out of society? Why are they still in in biological existence????

The logic of the human race is that the attractive will breed together whilst the unattractive die out. So why are there still ugly people walking about? Why aren't they DEAD, EXTINCT?

Paintings, sketches by artists around that era... then again, it could well have been down to a poor diet like democracy said.

Why haven't their impure genes been bred out of society? Why are they still in in biological existence????

The logic of the human race is that the attractive will breed together whilst the unattractive die out. So why are there still ugly people walking about? Why aren't they DEAD, EXTINCT?

No one is ugly. Everyone is beautiful and handsome in their own unique ways

Piers Morgan?

Speak for yourself.

J/K; actually, you made the point I was going to make before I could make it. I'd +1 it but I'm all out for today. Consider yourself appreciated.

you cant really expect to get a wholly accurate idea (or even a partially accurate idea) of what someone looks like through a painting....are you kidding?? most portraits from the tudor era dont even look like they could be real people.
scientifically they were homo sapiens, just like we are, and theres nothing to suggest that their genetic make up was remarkably different. of course with fluctuations in immigration etc that might change.

There's a reason why I didn't say "portraits". Since commissioned portraits are going to be of the noble and upper classes, so that's not going to be a fair representation of the population. There are many, many painting out there depicting the working class, and artists of the time drew what they saw in front of them... If you really wanted to you could compare skulls from the 1500's to the ones of 2000 and compare their bone structure.Homo sapiens have alot of variation, I'm not sure where you were going with that point. I look remarkably different to my neighbour and did you completely gloss over the diet bit?

Don't worry, I'll die alone and childless so my ugliness won't get passed on.

I guess most 'ugly people' just marry each other or they have something else about them that attracts a good looking person.

Thats because artists wanted to portray the poor in a certain way in order to send out a message that they are feckless etc. Its nothing more than an interpretation.There has been no proof to show that we are better looking. And as for diet, most people nowadays are obese.And i really doubt thered be much differennce in the skulls, apart from tooth decay perhaps, because as i said we are the same species, we havent suddenly over the last hundred years evolved into a more beautiful species.

Tooth decay would most likely lead to tooth loss - after the the tooth's gone, the bone supporting it is reabsorbed into the body. You know how you see really old people with sunken mouths? Tooth loss! Then there's things like chronic Vit D deficit which could mess around with bone formation during childhood years, malnourishment/parasites causing stunted growth...

Otherwise, noted. Genetics probably isn't a factor after all.

Edit: And above... good lord, I look like a mouth breather. I could have been pretty, dammit -_-

Ok, here's a quick science for public session.The pic below is a comparison of ancient corn and domesticated corn by breeding.It took nearly 10000 years for corn to look like this.So obviously we need more sex and time as a species.