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

I bet one part is smoking. Boomers and before smoked a lot, you could smoke indoors in public places, work places, etc, and it ages your face a lot. Our generation(in NA, anyway) grew up largely without indoor smoking and a huge drop in the number of smoking adults.