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Such feedback loops can explain the immense sexual attraction to superficial traits that humans exhibit, which have barely any relevance for survival except "social survival". | Such feedback loops can explain the immense sexual attraction to superficial traits that humans exhibit, which have barely any relevance for survival except "social survival". | ||
Some simple and elegant body shapes may however not necessarily be a result of aesthetic selection, but result of optimizing e.g. for resources efficiency or resilience, but this in turn could have initiated feedback loops in sexual selection. Attraction to sexually dimorphic beauty also increases fitness because seeking out the opposite sex is conductive for reproduction. | Some simple and elegant body shapes may however not necessarily be a result of aesthetic selection, but result of optimizing e.g. for resources efficiency or resilience resulting in a simple shape, but this in turn could have initiated feedback loops in sexual selection. Attraction to sexually dimorphic beauty also increases fitness because seeking out the opposite sex is conductive for reproduction. | ||
The relation of beauty to health and ability is mostly only relevant for extreme cases like disfigurement, certain syndromes and skin rashes and the like. | The relation of beauty to health and ability is mostly only relevant for extreme cases like disfigurement, certain syndromes and skin rashes and the like. | ||