Cosmetic Surgery Genetics

Nip and Tuck in the Genes

Genes don’t lie but cosmetic surgery does. Sociologists and anthropologists at the University of Beverly Hills are studying the generational effects of one or two partners in a relationship having offspring where the offspring consequently do not look like their cosmetically altered parents.

There are limited solutions to this problem with plastic surgery for the children being the most common, which obviously continues the succession of non-conformance in facial and body composition. Some cover to explain the inconsistency in looks between parents and offspring can be given by the simplistic explanation of the combining of the gene pool creating a hybrid of the parental donors, but this explanation has limits whereby the resulting offspring might be more likely, based on looks, to be assumed to be adopted.

The study has initial recommendations that the plastic surgeons take into consideration of the overall combined genetics in determining their procedures, such as obvious features as noses that typically very noticeable. Breast augmentation can be explained by a fictional distant relative gene pool contribution.