“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
"There would be intense selection against using any mate choice cue that isn't actually correlated with useful underlying traits." - only if the non-useful cues were associated with highly deleterious traits, if they were usually neutral I don't see why that would be the case.
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If you have a strong mate preference for a neutral cue, that means you are less focused on true adventageous traits, to your detriment.
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Exactly.
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