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If we choose beauty as an important factor in our breeding partners why are we not becoming more and more beautiful as we evolve?

Short and ugly people overachieve, marry top models, leading to ugly children.

Also, a small pool of upper classes leads to inbreeding to preserve their ‘race’.  Again, ugly children.

These are the feedback mechanisms that work against us, unlike in animals who constantly mate according to a visual ideal (beauty) and maintain a genetic level of uniform beauty amongst their species.

The only scientifically quantifiable indicator for beauty is actually symmetry. 

The muscles in one side of the face are controlled by the opposing half of the brain.  The order of ascendancy of the lateral  half’s  of the brain change as you grow older.  Hence the more spatially inclined right side gives way to the logically inclined left side as you exit childhood (that is why most people are right handed).  If you suffer emotional turbulence in your upbringing then  there will be a radically different effect upon  each side of the brain.  The different temperments  of your brain will be observed directly on your face , as the two half’s of your face will have slightly different muscular tension.  The more temperate your childhood the more balanced the muscles will be.

Hence, symmetry demonstrates a stable growth pattern.  In later life a powerful left brained personality can overcome the turmoil of earlier years and through a period of stability can impose muscular symmetry upon the face which will disappear during  times of emotional turmoil.

To see the different halfs of your brain take a mirror and put it to a clear frontal picture of your face and place it along the mid-line.  To see the subtle differences you will have to switch quickly between the left and the right.