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Comment author: wiresnips 02 December 2010 02:54:55AM 0 points [-]

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.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 December 2010 04:30:12AM 1 point [-]

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.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 December 2010 05:37:05AM *  0 points [-]

The runaway cycle is the peacock effect.

Also known as Fisherian Runaway.

Comment author: shokwave 02 December 2010 06:26:57AM 0 points [-]

Evolution's Goodhart Law.. Man, there is just no escaping it, is there?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 02 December 2010 05:01:22AM 0 points [-]

By "fitness" I meant "health".

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