“Evolutionary psychologists have long thought that facial attractiveness was a health cue. However, recent work suggests that it might simply be a byproduct of how easy some faces are for the brain to encode.” — @Ben_C_J https://t.co/ZZeiuw2lVo
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Replying to @NicoleBarbaro
There would be intense selection against using any mate choice cue that isn't actually correlated with useful underlying traits. Any such by-product should vanish within a few generations, in favor of better-calibrated criteria.
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Replying to @primalpoly @NicoleBarbaro
With fisherian runaway models isn't it sufficient that others also find the trait attractive? Keynesian beauty contest type traits.
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Replying to @csgrandfield @NicoleBarbaro
Hard to get Fisherian runaway when you have strong mutual mate choice in a pair-bonding species, as I argued in Mating Mind.
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