Do you think humankind will appear more beautiful over time through natural selection?

Well, I don't think that can ever happen. Because everything looks different to different people. Everyone doesn't find the same people attractive. The same goes for ugliness. There is always variants in each persons mind. Also, natural selection doesn't know beauty. It knows what helps you to survive. And you can get traits from ten generations back. The point is there will never be a standard. People just look different and no one sees the same thing so it doesn't matter anyway.

Beauty is only skin deep. Sad but true. My daughter is a knock out on the outside and a knock out on the inside. That's not just me talking its anyone who has ever met her. That is rare, most "beautiful people" are self centered and self absorbed. The pic's in your parents yearbook were probably black and white, glasses were more function-able than fashionable and clothes were more conservative so all of that tied together gave us a more mature look. I'm sure your children will think the same thing when they look at your year book. When you have lived long enough you discover everything that goes out of fashion comes back after about 20 years.

Natural selection now your talking Hitler's way of thinking. Create a dominate beautiful race, how sad. I like the natural way, we all bring something to the table that is if you can get anyone to listen now that's another story.

Well, every generation belongs to a different artistic era, and what happens is that what is said to be beautiful today was not in the past. For instance, look to any renaissance painting, and you'll notice that the beauties of the 1500's were all so-today-called "fat".

Hence, at that time, today's beauties are the ugliest.

As a matter of fact, humankind doesn't appear more beatiful. It just keep being the same

Have you seen some of these people who are having children? As long as there is alcohol, ugly people will reproduce!

The people in your parents' yearbooks look older because the style was more conservative, and a lot of people never really abandon the style that was popular when they were young.

I personally believe humankind will get stupider over time, because it seems that the intelligent, educated people are having fewer children. The ones who can't unravel the mysteries of birth control are the ones reproducing!

No. There are certain traits that might disappear because they are not necessary, but it has nothing to do with being "beautiful" especially since the standard for this changes so often. Natural selection occurs over MANY MANY generations - over thousands of years. Humans today dont really look any different than humans 20,000 years ago, so the differences you might see in your parents yearbook has nothing to do with evolution. This is probably due to changes in style such as hair, clothes and makeup.

No. This won't be true because even 'ugly' or less attractive people get married and procreate.

We may mature faster because of better nutrition, but that has nothing to do with the original question of beauty.

Our ideals of what beauty is will change, but we won't become more attractive as that is a socially applied value, and genetically those with less attractive features will still be in the gene pool.

There is absolutely NO GUARANTEE that offsprings born to attractive people, will themselves turn out to be attractive, just like people with Ph.D, and M.D. degrees have produced autistic kids, or kids with other types of retardation. Life is a crapshoot. You get what you get.

Yes...I think so they will look beautiful over time since long time ago i see people looking like "apes"....And now we look a lot better ;P

Not necessarily. Ugly people have sex too. And sometimes two beautiful people make an ugly baby.

I think we are gonna get ugliest if we continue evolving with all this contamination.