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Sexual selection may not only concern physical appearance though, but also cognitive ability, in particular because human intelligence is unnecessarily sophisticated for the needs of hunter-gatherers to survive<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_human_intelligence#Sexual_selection</ref>. While human females may not all be dull looking (as it is the case in many bird species), they have certainly rarely impressed by cognitive achievements in human history. | Sexual selection may not only concern physical appearance though, but also cognitive ability, in particular because human intelligence is unnecessarily sophisticated for the needs of hunter-gatherers to survive<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_human_intelligence#Sexual_selection</ref>. While human females may not all be dull looking (as it is the case in many bird species), they have certainly rarely impressed by cognitive achievements in human history. | ||
While it is not proven that feedback loops were involved in shaping human ornament, or just sexual selection without feedback, it is certainly plausible, especially considering the importance people place on good looks. It could explain why people undergo great risks and costs merely for improving their looks, e.g. surgeries, diets or steroid intake. | While it is not proven that feedback loops were involved in shaping human ornament, or just sexual selection without feedback, it is certainly plausible, especially considering the importance people place on good looks. It could explain why people undergo great risks and costs merely for improving their looks, e.g. by surgeries, diets or steroid intake. | ||
Various members of the [[MRA]] hypothesized that the increasingly dimorphic beauty standards that men are expected to have just to get a date in a sexually liberated online [[dating]] environment may be the beginning of a Fisherian runaway or intensification of existing ones. Only a very small percentage of men are being chosen, and it's the men with the most sexually dimorphic traits: cartoonishly large muscles, cartoonishly large frame, with no selective attention paid to things like loyalty, intelligence, etc. | |||
This also results in an even higher competitive environment among men without physically sexually dimorphic traits, and men with [[dark triad]] traits getting even more to win female attention, exaggerating a trait which arguably became [[maladaptive]] after civilization and the industrial revolution. Of course this possibility is a concerning trend even without Fisherian runaway possibly intensifying such selection patterns in future generations. | This also results in an even higher competitive environment among men without physically sexually dimorphic traits, and men with [[dark triad]] traits getting even more to win female attention, exaggerating a trait which arguably became [[maladaptive]] after civilization and the industrial revolution. Of course this possibility is a concerning trend even without Fisherian runaway possibly intensifying such selection patterns in future generations. | ||