Isn’t beauty a set of built-in fitness testing heuristics?
As far as I can tell, beauty is a combination of health heuristics and status markers which are developed in particular societies—some of the status markers are about rarity and others are about costly signals.
Isn’t beauty a set of built-in fitness testing heuristics? If so, fitness really does cause beauty.
It’s worth pointing out that beauty also really does cause fitness. The runaway cycle is the peacock effect.
As far as I can tell, beauty is a combination of health heuristics and status markers which are developed in particular societies—some of the status markers are about rarity and others are about costly signals.
Also known as Fisherian Runaway.
Evolution’s Goodhart Law.. Man, there is just no escaping it, is there?
By “fitness” I meant “health”.