How will the proliferation of plastic surgery change the long term evolutionary path of humans? Will we get uglier as less attractive people manage to mate despite their looks?
2006-09-12 11:58:18 · 12 answers · asked by Q'Aminator 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I must say yes. If genetic flaws which would normally be shunned are hidden from the selectors, those flaws will be passed on. The extent of the damage will relate to the percentage of cheaters in the general population. Darwin may be cold, but he is the guy that built this biosphere, and we monkey with his mechanics at our own peril.
I'm much more concerned with issues such as bypassing natural child birth than I am cosmetic modifications. If we become married to technology in order to reproduce, the writing will be on the wall.
Always admired Steffi Graf for wearing her nose proudly. Andre manages to put up with it.
2006-09-12 12:25:00 · answer #1 · answered by SAN 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Short term, yes. Long term, no.
Here's why; short term there will be more mating of sub-attractive people and by it's nature the percentage of ugly babies being born will increase. Although a certain amount of these ugly children will commit suicide as the result of extreme teasing, and that will help towards balancing out the ratio of mingers to winners. There will however still be a noticeable increase in fugly people.
This will lead to a social kick back on the old practices of plastic surgery, and lack of self confidence will take care of the rest. You see while there are even today a fair percentage of people that are attractive, only a few are confident in how attractive they are. Women especially tend to suffer from self confidence issues. This will lead to the next step in pushing the ratio back into balance and then into a more 'attractive' situation. You see more and more people will become scared that their offspring might be a minger (as a result of their own confidence issues) and there will be a push on genetic screening of babies.
After a generation or two the world will be much prettier and therefore teenagers will be having more under age sex, and there will a boom in the population. This will eventually lead to a restriction in child birth and potential parents will have to lobby the local government to get a 'hump pass' before they can have a child. This child will of course be screened and pretty.
I could go on and list the other knock on effects of this scenario, but you get the point. Long term, plastic surgery will help our great great grand children become prettier.
2006-09-13 09:47:12 · answer #2 · answered by Simon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-26 22:29:16 · answer #3 · answered by Janet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beauty is, and always will be, a matter of personal taste. There will always be somebody out there who considers you attractive. And there are more ways to determine beauty than mere physical features. I look first for the inner beauty of the personality, the soul. Then, if there's physical beauty to go with it, I consider it icing on the cake. But I never chose a partner strictly on physical beauty alone. True love is always based on many variables, and if it is true, it will last way beyond the gradual demise of our physical beauty that comes with age.
2006-09-12 12:36:48 · answer #4 · answered by John Silver 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Uglier yes.
It will dilute the gene pool of good looking people b/c non-goodlooking people will mate with the actual good looking people - thereby reducing the chance that two actual good looking people will mate and have actual good looking children.
Someday someone is going to be surprised when baby inherits the genetically large nose someone else had fixed!
:P
2006-09-12 12:18:43 · answer #5 · answered by Melis__A 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ugly people have been finding a way to mate for centuries... where have you been? Or did you think people like Steve Buscemi just sprouted from the ground?
2006-09-12 12:11:50 · answer #6 · answered by RazzleDazzle 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Since it is not a genetic alteration, I don't think it will make people uglier unless it was a bad surgery.
2006-09-12 12:01:43 · answer #7 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No, it will not change the future generation, only evolution or genetic changes can do that. Maybe, if they started altering genes, we would see some changes.
2006-09-12 12:04:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It will make everyone's face fall off quicker.
2006-09-12 12:10:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It won't have any effect at all. Evolution is a theory that has not been proven and is in reality, not true.
2006-09-12 12:05:16 · answer #10 · answered by mufasa 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋