“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
There's a big opportunity cost of including a useless cue in a suite of criteria for choosing mates, since it would lead you to under-weight the actually informative cues, and you'd make worse mate choices.
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That also assumes that the useless clue is not a spandrel of a useful trait. Appreciation of symmetry could be a byproduct of some other aesthetic sense.
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