how come adults don’t look as ‘mature’ as they used to? I’m told it’s ‘neoteny’ but that answers nothing.

Question

As a millennial, I recognize that us 90’s kids just look like very tall teenagers, where as people our age back 30 to 40 years ago actually LOOKED like they were in their 20’s. Why is this?

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Answer 1

Working life.
The life of a manual working class person (most people born up to the 1970s) was much more physcially stressful than that of white collar workers (most people in the current generations). I’m 62 and look younger than my dad when he was 40, and I moved from blue collar to white collar jobs in my mid-thirties.