I mean, will ugly people always produce ugly offsprings since they'll likely marry ugly people? Will beautiful people always carry on the beautiful gene and children?
2007-06-15 12:05:01 · 13 answers · asked by Luke J 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
No Thank God or my kids would be hideous!
2007-06-15 12:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
Forget specific examples. They are worthless. I'm sure we could pull out any number of examples of beautiful children of beautiful parents and ugly children of beautiful parents. Neither demonstrates a thing.
Instead, let's turn the question on its head. Is there some aspect of beauty that might NOT be genetic? I'm sure we can think of a few, especially given the vast amount of environmental interference we engage in to produce exactly this effect. No daughter is going to naturally inherit her mother's breast implants or her hair dye. That's perhaps obvious.
But what about everything else? The shape of the nose? Smooth skin? The dexterity necessary for a certain grace of carriage? All these things obviously DO have genetic components, if not complete derivation from genetics.
So yes. If there is even ONE part of beauty that is genetically based, then beautiful people will have MORE beautiful children than ugly people. And this is indisputably the case.
Just don't make the mistake of ending there. There isn't ONE gene for beauty. There are obviously hundreds, if not thousands. And to make matters more complex, what contributes to one person's beauty may not contribute to another's, so you need the right COMBINATION of genes that contribute to beauty. It would be a simple matter to photoshop features from supermodels together and produce something truly hideous. Which is probably why there are people saying genetics has nothing to do with it.
So although there is a tendancy for beauty, only two parents with identical and uniformly beautiful genes and no bad genes are going to be certain to produce a beautiful child. It could happen, and probably does. I just wouldn't hold my breath, if I were you.
2007-06-15 19:59:15 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
naaah havent you ever heard tht two ugly people can make a beautiful baby?? i think its just dependant on which little spermy with all the details gets into which egg ya know??? also you have genes from the family.
it can be of course but it can also work the opposite was...
i've never seen two really beautiful people produce an ugly offspring.
2007-06-15 20:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by Sheriff of R&S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beauty is defined by social standards and has no fixed values. It changes over the years. A beautiful woman by todays standards may have children that are not attractive by tomorrow's standards.
Paris Hilton is a hideous monstrosity but some consider her beautiful for some reason.
2007-06-15 22:26:14 · answer #4 · answered by Ninja grape juice 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just go to the Mall and observe families. You'll see two great looking parents and a homely kid in tow or you'll see two homely parents with a beautiful child in tow. Maybe you'll even see one homely parent and one beautiful parent with one beautiful child and one nerdy looking child. Then if you ask the person next to you which one they think is the best looking it will be different than you think because beauty is still in the eyes of the beholder.
And then true beauty is in the heart anyway. A really good person is more important.
2007-06-15 19:17:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Beauty, as such, can be defined, as the acidental harmony of the proportion of our body parts and adnexae...IT is an accident of nature (in fact, being more or less ugly,, is the expectable genetical trait).....however, when a man or a woman are quire well proportioned, beauty ensues, and as intelligence, are MULTIFACTORIAL AND ACCIDENTAL GENETIC TRAITS,,,,what I am trying to mean, is that beautiful and intelligent human beings (the combination is extremely rare), are the result of multifactorial accidents...(even if Ripley doubts it)....they deviate from the Gaussian expectable general traits of the rest of the human beings...
And because of that, neither intelligence nor beauty, are inherited from parent to descendants....
It is true however, that both traits like many others, tend to run in groups of families, related by consanguinity....
2007-06-15 19:15:48 · answer #6 · answered by Sehr_Klug 50 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder and subject to change, hereditary only plays a small part.
2007-06-15 19:14:25 · answer #7 · answered by St N 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is a bit more complex than that, though morphological traits are heritable do not forget development. Nor do you need forget men who attract beautiful females with resources and status. That being just two of the myriad causal factors here. More will be offered, I am sure.
2007-06-15 19:10:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Beauty is hereditary. Beauty is too complicated and subjective to say that beautiful people will have beautiful babies but it definitely helps the odds.
2007-06-15 19:48:26 · answer #9 · answered by bravozulu 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and no,
ive known ugly couples with beautiful children, and vice versa.
it depends on what is passed down, the cute nose from grandma mary, or the acne from uncle joe.
2007-06-15 19:13:05 · answer #10 · answered by Cara 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Morphogenic regulation of cell differentiation and movement during the developmental stage determines the phenotype of offspring.
2007-06-16 11:05:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋