Genetics and Beauty
We all know that not everyone can look like Catherine Zeta Jones, Angelina Jolie and Brigitte Bardot, and likewise not all men call look like George Clooney, Brad Pitt and David Beckham. But why is there such a diversity in the human population between the outside appearances of men and women? And why are certain traits considered to be more “beautiful” and handsome?
According to some geneticists, it is actually gene mutations that create the different looks, and more interestingly, the incredible beautiful looks that seem almost insanely impossible in today’s celebrities and models. It is a well known fact that in other animal species, different traits that are considered attractive between animals are for reasons that actually have an underlying purpose.
For example, the peacock who has the most beautiful plummage for a tail (the male, surprisingly) is adorned with female admirers who are ready and willing to mate with them. But it is not because the animal actually knows the tail is beautiful, it is an innate knowledge that the males with the longer, more colorful tails are less likely to get sick and are more disease resistent, which is something the female innately knows will be passed on to her chicks.
This example can also be seen in humans, where men with a more chiseled jaw and women with fuller lips and more symmetrical faces are seen by the opposite sex as being more sexually capable as well as more capable of producing healthy, strong offspring. Interesting stuff, isn’t it? It just goes to show that no matter how far we’ve evolved as humans, there are still huge parts of us that remain instinctually based animals.
