The beauty of the female face is no health certificate after all - which runs afoul of the dogma that human mate choice aims at good genes. https://osf.io/f9tu2/ pic.twitter.com/1xJqAcZFVV
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The beauty of the female face is no health certificate after all - which runs afoul of the dogma that human mate choice aims at good genes. https://osf.io/f9tu2/ pic.twitter.com/1xJqAcZFVV
Female facial beauty IS sexually selected. But as Darwin ingeniously recognized, sexual selection is not about survival benefits, but about arbitrary signals that may even hinder survival. Fisher captured that in the sexy son hypothesis, which I find elegant.
Ok, but If traits associated with sexual selection are arbitrary, not good genes stuff, then differences between short-term and long-term relationship criteria is refuted? I m confused
Natural selection applies after sexual selection, but natural selection is very permissive about inefficiencies.
Yeah, but It changes something about mate choices? Before, logic behind short-term strategies was good genes. Now, what explain that difference between strategies? Random?
I would not give too much about differences between short/long term mate choice criteria. The have a very bad replication history. Like symmetry.
Literature don't corroborate short/long term difference on criteria, then? (Human population)
Rolf Degen Retweeted Rolf Degen
I have stopped counting the many negative results. Here is one of the latest. That theory is badly damaged.https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/932641032025591809 …
Rolf Degen added,
This kind of result occur only for symmetry and masculinity/femininity? Or in general studies have refuted differences between short/long term criteria? My project is about that, but I work with resources and social status. It seems to be differences between sexes and relation
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