Were our ancestors better looking than us?
This is actually a very serious questions. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I spend a lot of time worrying about Genomic Entropy. The problem is, it's too easy to survive and pass your genes onto the next generation, so there is no weeding out of bad mutations or genetic extremes. People with really bad eyesight, too tall, too short, too fat, too skinny, nasal problems (that last one includes me), asthma, bad teeth, to name just of few of the problems that people have, used to have a selective disadvantage, but our softer lifestyle combined with more advanced medicine enables a lot of people to survive who would have died out in earlier generations. The result is that an increasing proportion of people will have these problems, and be dependent on the health care industry just to get by in life.
So, the title of this debate is a little tongue-in-cheek, indicating that face/body types might have been a little more uniform when we had more selective pressure weeding out the extremes, but the real problem is with the increase of other, more serious problems, and an increased dependency on health care.
Yes, and I envy them sooo much
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What a bunch of nonsense
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