>>10969404Tricky question!
I certainly think that unfavorable genes that negatively effect the facial phenotype has decreased with time due to sexual selection there are other factors in it as well.
First of all if you pay attention to the faces you see in the streets and compare those to photographs of people in the 20th and 19th hundreds you will notice that a distinct jawline was much more common and a projecting chin a given.
Of course people have gotten fatter over the decades but if you pay attention to the side profiles of faces you will see a pattern the so called "mouthbreather face".
With dopey eyes due to a larger eye sockets, a bumby nose, no cheekbones, a weak and small jaw and most importantly a recessed chin that goes back.
Some people have it slightly and still look quite attractive and others look completely fucked up due to it. But it is a trend that effects most of the population.
What is interesting is that this trend isn't racially bound. You can see it with first generation immigrants form the middle east for example and when you look at their kids they show the same recessed facial features as the european people.
So it seems NOT to be a genetic problem but a behavioral one.
There isn't hard evidence for it but convincing indicators that posture and diet are the cause for this.
And I can see it with my siblings who have bad oral posture and how they develop these said facial characteristics.
I'm not that old but going from pictures I am fairly sure that people got SIGNIFICANTLY uglier over time (unfortunately while living in a time of increased superficiality).
Also there is the question of low birth rates.
Beauty certainly has major advantages in life which has been proven in multiple studies.
But do these exceptionally beautiful reproduce that much more is questionable.
Not even going into the issue of mass migration fucking up the gene pool...
