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Did People Used To Look Older?

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Hey, Vsauce, Michael here. At the age of

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18, Carl Sean looked like a teenager,

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but it doesn't take long in an old high

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school yearbook to find teenagers who

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look surprisingly old. These people are

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all in their 20s, but so are these

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people. This is Elizabeth Taylor when

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she was just 17. And here are some high

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school students from the 70s.

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Did people used to look older? Brandon

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McCarthy asked on Twitter and evidence

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poured in. People shared photos of their

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parents in their early 20s, their dad at

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21, their mom at 18 or 19, their dad at

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45. One user shared their husband at 27,

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and what his father looked like at 23.

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And there's pretty much an entire

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subculture around how old footballers

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looked decades ago. 24, 31, 33, 29,

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It's not uncommon to think that there's

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something more grown up about the way

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people used to be. To look back and

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think that people seemed older at a

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younger age than they do now. Let's call

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it retrospective aging. It doesn't

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happen to everyone. People do not and

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never have aged similarly. And there's

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even the opposite observation that kids

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these days grow up too fast. But it's a

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popular question and subject of numerous

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memes.

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So,

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is it real? Or is it an illusion fueled

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by cherrypicked examples that feeds rosy

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nostalgia for a time when people were

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tough and didn't have it as easy as you

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kids have it now? Well, as it turns out,

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both humans today really are aging more

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slowly than their historic counterparts.

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Changes in lifestyle, nutrition, smoking

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habits, health care, early life

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conditions, and skin care, particularly

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the use of sunscreen are a huge part of

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it. By comparing measures of metabolic,

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cardiovascular, inflammatory, kidney,

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liver, and lung function across time,

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researchers at Yale and USC have found

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that we are in fact staying younger for

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longer than we used to. So, does that

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mean that 60 is the new 50?

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Almost. Their results suggest that

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between the early 90s and the late

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2000s, 60 became the new 56, 40 became

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the new 37 12 and 20 became the new 19.

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Oh, also during the last century,

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dentistry and orthodontics have played a

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huge cosmetic role in the kinds of faces

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we see in parts of the world. But

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interestingly, when faces in magazines

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are measured from the 1930s to today,

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the only significant change has been

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that across all ethnicities, the media

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is now exposing us to larger lips. Also,

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retroactive aging can occur over short

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time spans. When I was a freshman, the

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seniors in my high school seemed so old

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to me. But by the time I was a senior

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myself, I looked in the mirror and at my

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peers and I was like, we're them now,

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but we don't seem as old as they did.

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What's going on isn't just about bodies.

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First of all, the seniors I looked at

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when I was a freshman truly were older

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than me at that time. They graduated and

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went away. And later when I was a

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senior, I saw myself as I was. But in my

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mind's eye, I saw the earlier seniors as

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they appeared to me when I was younger.

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Retrospective aging seems to also be

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about perspective.

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Let's go back to this tweet. This is

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George Wint playing Norm on the TV show

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Cheers. Now, when Cheers premiered, went

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was indeed 34, but I looked it up and

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this image is actually from episode 24

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of season 5 when Wint was 38. So, we're

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not comparing apples to apples here.

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However, this is an image of George Went

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at 34. And Ashley Fairbanks made some

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alterations and a good point.

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However, here's the rub. These

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alterations don't make W look more like

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a 34 year old. They make him look more

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like a 34y old today.

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Similarly, giving the Golden Girls

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