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This also results in an even higher competitive environment among men without physically sexually dimorphic traits. Due to behavioral traits also being sexually selected, they claim men will also become more psychopathic and disagreeable to win female attention, exaggerating character traits which many see as [[maladaptiveness|maladaptive]], at least in the context of modern civilization. There is indeed some evidence that [[dark triad]] traits are currently being sexually selected by (at least Western) women,<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273809664_The_Dark_Triad_personality_Attractiveness_to_women</ref><ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-019-00213-0</ref> and that criminal and anti-social men often have more sexual partners and [[reproductive success]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120513221622/http://abacon.com/ellis/tables/ch8.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12625439</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513814000774</ref> Some view this data as evidence of the beginning of a process of fisherian runaway selection. Research on sexual selection theory by Puts (2010) suggested women's preference for highly dominant men may have partly been a result of sexual selection.<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2016.1216153?journalCode=rjqy20</ref><ref>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.02.005</ref> | This also results in an even higher competitive environment among men without physically sexually dimorphic traits. Due to behavioral traits also being sexually selected, they claim men will also become more psychopathic and disagreeable to win female attention, exaggerating character traits which many see as [[maladaptiveness|maladaptive]], at least in the context of modern civilization. There is indeed some evidence that [[dark triad]] traits are currently being sexually selected by (at least Western) women,<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273809664_The_Dark_Triad_personality_Attractiveness_to_women</ref><ref>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-019-00213-0</ref> and that criminal and anti-social men often have more sexual partners and [[reproductive success]].<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120513221622/http://abacon.com/ellis/tables/ch8.pdf</ref><ref>https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12625439</ref><ref>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1090513814000774</ref> Some view this data as evidence of the beginning of a process of fisherian runaway selection. Research on sexual selection theory by Puts (2010) suggested women's preference for highly dominant men may have partly been a result of sexual selection.<ref>https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418825.2016.1216153?journalCode=rjqy20</ref><ref>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.02.005</ref> | ||
The originator of the concept of fisherian runaway, Ronald Fisher, had a teleological view of evolution where he saw natural and sexual selection as being united in driving evolutionary 'progress' towards a higher form of life. He invoked fears of runaway selection leading to the decline of societies, warning that selection for what he saw as more frivolous qualities such as wealth alone would result in negative social outcomes.<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/4027434</ref> | |||
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 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. | 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 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. | ||