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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 (see [[#zyzz|Zyzz's photo]]). It could also explain the phenomenon of being ''stunned'' by someone's appearance, as well as "love on first sight" and [[oneitis]].
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 (see [[#zyzz|Zyzz's photo]]). It could also explain the phenomenon of being ''stunned'' by someone's appearance, as well as "love on first sight" and [[oneitis]].
There are scientific models that show under a stable environment a feedback loop could develop where the males become increasingly violent and aggressive, to the point where they all kill each other off and doom the species to extinction.http://www.jstor.org/stable/2410506 However this has never actually happened.


== Sexy son hypothesis ==
== Sexy son hypothesis ==
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