Not sure. I just spotted the analogy.
Literally speaking, costly social signaling decreases the overall fitness of the population, sometimes to extinction. Illustrating the blindness of evolution. Draw your own analogies to the current extreme social signaling in Western countries.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/984214156596277248 …
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yeah hard to signal courage and honor when you're a fecking ostracod mate
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My take: Modern social signaling is cheap for the individual (mostly), but has negative social costs that reduce the fitness of the society.
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Some people blame lower fertility on it but causality is hard to entablish here http://www.univforum.org/en/article/conspicuous-consumption-cause-plummeting-birth-rates … Not sure how cheap it is when people spend most excess income on positional goods like expensive watches and other abominations. But for evo standards just $ cheap I guess
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Geoffrey Miller discusses this prospect in "The Mating Mind," which I am currently reading. Non-adaptive traits turn on the other sex for whatever reason, and the next thing you know, males have antlers the size of oak trees and die young.
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We should be very wary of assuming this says anything about humans.
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aa totally racist tweet - looking forward to bringing this up when you try to publish something 'scientific'
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