The Null Device

Mingers of the world unite: New studies in evolutionary biology have found that, in the animal kingdom, ugly can be beautiful; that is to say, some animals prefer mates that the decided majority find decisively unattractive.
[Brooks] joined forces with John Endler, an ecological geneticist at James Cook University in Townsville, to observe how individual female guppies choose between different males. They found that although all the females liked males with bright orange spots and large tails, a minority of females also liked males with black markings.
If the same holds true for people, then it may be time to stop worrying about how closely you adhere to the Hollywood ideal of attractiveness.

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