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Because it's fairly unlikely that "beauty" is primarily genetic (as opposed to the influence of good health and good luck) or that the portions of it that are genetic are Mendelian (single gene traits that behave in a dominant versus recessive fashion).
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Mar 28, 2007 · For decades biologists have tried to explain why evolution hasn't given us all Hollywood good looks. A new study shows why you don't look like this.
- An 'Evolutionary Advantage'
- Looking Into The Past
- Representation Matters
- What Does Art Tell Us?
Dr Brendan Zietsch, an evolutionary behavioural geneticist, says there is "good evidence" that what we find attractive is underpinned by evolution. He references a study in which a group of people who had never had contact with the Western world, and a group from the US, looked at photos of faces from both environments. Dr Zietsch says "they pretty...
Gender studies lecturer Dr Hannah McCann argues that ideas of beauty are inextricably linked to history. To understand what we classify as beauty, she says, we need to look deep into the past, and consider the ideas that have been presented to us. "When we're being asked by a scientist, 'is this an attractive face?', that is part of a broader conve...
Journalist and filmmaker Santilla Chingaipe says the media is also responsible for perpetuating ideas of what is 'normal'. She says as a woman of colour, she doesn't have the privilege of "constantly having your version of you being reaffirmed back to you". If you don't see yourself on the TV, in an ad at the bus shelter or on the pages of a magazi...
If finding consensus between science and cultural theory is fraught, looking to art only complicates things further. In art history, ideas of beauty seem to be both biologically and culturally driven. Art historian Dr Adelina Modesti says the human body is the point of reference for standards of beauty in art, and representations of it have changed...
If both parents were merles, the result in reality would likely be a very rare and problematic double-recessive genetic combination called a white Australian shepherd, which is susceptible to genetic defects involving their eyes and ears.
May 3, 2024 · You know why she had two rows of eyelashes? Does science have an answer? Yes. She was having a rare genetic disorder (Distichiasis). A FOXC2 gene mutation is actually the cause of this.
Oct 25, 2023 · No one gene makes us athletic, smart, or sexy! The expression of genetic potential requires the proper environment, opportunities, nutrition, training, and support systems. Understanding the genetics behind human diversity and achievement is endlessly fascinating.
If beautiful men were actually having tons of babies (way more than uglier men), and beauty is genetic, then yes that would spread. And if beautiful women produced many more offspring than less beautiful women, and that was genetic, that would also spread.
