Fisherian runaway: Difference between revisions

Men's rights activist [[Warren Farrell]] warned of such a thing in 1993, in his book, [[The Myth of Male Power]], warning women that their preference for and [[Cheerleaders|encouragement]] of, "hunter-killer", "star quarterback", type men could cause the extinction of the human race with the arrival of nuclear technology.  He also claimed that since civilization and the industrial revolution [[dark triad]] traits have become maladaptive, as the traits which foster a healthy society have switched from might-makes-right individual brutality, to [[Nice guy|cooperation, intelligence, empathy]] etc.

The sexy son hypotheses was also proposed by Fisher and is merely a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corollary corollary] of Fisherian runaway regarding men's beauty. It simply states that the positive feedback loop makes men's beauty so attractive that women are willing to choose a beautiful male regardless of other considerations such as morality or ability to provide to provide, because the males' beauty—which is partly heritable—confers on their offspring a potential reproductive advantage. There is indeed [[Scientific_Blackpill#A_man.27s_physical_attractiveness_predicts_how_long_he_waits_before_a_woman_will_allow_sex|compelling evidence]] of this behavior. Of course men also more readily copulate with beautiful women, but men have less [[Bateman's principle|parental investment]] and hence do not need to care as much about such considerations. Further, women's ability to provide does not matter nearly as much as men's and women also largely lack this ability (at least they did before the invention of modern welfare states). Hence, women's behavior of disregarding the ability to provide merely at the benefit of better looking offspring has much more drastic implications.