7.9 Ja, maar
Zie Miller: Fear of fitness; nog bewerken
In essentie gaat het om:
The ideological problems with the fitness indicator theory of human evolution
The argument thus far has been, roughly:
- Some of our most distinctive mental traits (e.g. art, music, language, creativity, ideology) are hard to explain as survival adaptations
- Darwin’s process of sexual selection through mate choice can explain many traits in many species that are hard to explain as survival adaptations
- Sexual selection often produces “fitness indicators” – traits that advertise an individual’s genetic quality through conspicuous cost and precision
- Fitness indicators follow the “truth in advertising” logic of biological signaling theory, which is similar to theories of wealth-signaling and product-quality-signaling in economics, and theories of social-status-signaling in sociology
- Some human mental traits and cultural forms have already been analyzed as wealth-signals and status-signals, so it is not a great reach to consider them as possible fitness-signals as well
- Some human mental traits and cultural forms bear other hallmarks of sexual selection, so they may serve the same biological function (mate-attraction) as fitness-signals in other species
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