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>>657391
You're just falling into the uncanny valley. Your evolutionary tools used to recognize neotenic features are fighting against your evolutionary tools used to recognize unnatural, possibly dangerous or sickly, features, and losing. It's often due to a lack of acquaintance with a particular characteristic: uncanny valley can be (partially) deprogrammed by frequent contact with the subject of the disgust. Other factors probably exist too.

>>657393
This is really interesting, but removed from the point of the discussion. But if you want to discuss about it, I think there's an argument to be made for racial disparities in neotenic feature appreciation correlated to r/K selection, and probably something deep there, albeit what, I don't know.

Human populations favouring r selections (either genetically or culturally) tend toward a lowered appreciation for neotenic features and a bigger appreciation for fertility markers (most appreciably, asses). Conversely, those populations keep far less neotenic features in adulthood and tend toward a lower IQ.

Higher IQ populations favouring K selections tend toward a bigger appreciation for neotenic features and a lowered appreciation for fertility markers. Asians and, to a lesser degrees, modern whites are a good example of that.

What it really means, I don't know. It could be a fascinating subject of research for a real social scientist though.