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>After a couple generations, rich & powerful families with status tend to have more attractive families. IIRC this is a common misconception. The son of a trad
by bsanr2 6y ago
>After a couple generations, rich & powerful families with status tend to have more attractive families.
IIRC this is a common misconception. The son of a traditionally handsome man isn't necessarily going to get all of the traditionally handsome male features from his dad; he might get some of his traditionally beautiful mother's traditionally beautiful female features. Genetics is a crapshoot like that.
- sokoloff 6y agoNutrition and personal care go a long way as well. I'm (self-assessed) of around average appearance and my wife is, according to most sighted people, better looking than I am. Our kids are better looking than either of us (at least so far), in part from genetics, but substantially from having a healthy diet, healthy lifestyle, excellent medical, skin, and dental care, etc. (And we're just upper-middle class vs middle-middle class where we were raised.) Even if genetics are a crapshoot, I'd expect offspring of rich and powerful families to be, on average, more attractive than the median for their area from these environmental factors.
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