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(Summarising some research I've looked at). This is both a combination of information as well as a question I have
Natural selection is purely the survival perspective things of things famously studied by Charles Darwin
Its how well an animal can adapt to their given environment to survive. It can include how well an animal can fight, hunt, run. How well they can camouflage in the background, how they can adapt to new diets, how well they can swim etc.
Examples of this can include but are not limited to giraffes and their necks, peppered moths (light and dark ones in england), galapagos tortoises etc
Sexual Selection is the attraction towards the opposite gender.
Within sexual selection it is divided into Intersexual and Intrasexual selection
Intrasexual selection is the competition inside a gender, such as male deer using their antlers to fight with each other to see who's stronger, or seals
Intersexual selection is selecting a partner to reproduce with (most cases the female animal choosing the male animal) and this could be based on things such as certain patterns, sizes of animals, certain features etc
And then within the Intersexual Selection there are two theories for how a partner is chosen. The sexy sons theory and the good genes theory
The sexy sons theory is that the partner will be chosen based on traits which most likely will make the offspring appear most sexy ( so they can have an easy chance with getting a partner so they can reproduce and so on) such as more colours on a bird, the size of the feathers on a peacock
The Good Genes theory is that the partner will be chosen based upon traits which are deemed to help with survival which the offspring will get such as height, strength, size of body etc
However, a balance should be present in an animal so that they can both survive and be attractive. For example with the peacock, the bigger and brighter the feathers the more attractive he will be with the females, but at the same time the more likely he is to be spotted and hunted by predators up in the food chain (such as the example below where the rope represents the peacock being in between both 50/50 for benefit and cost where the female wants to mate but the feathers are not TOO big that the predator will find it so easy to eat the peacock
This it the same for humans.
We want good looking partners, and good looking children who are healthy and will be attractive and strong and thats perfectly normal.
For the Intersexual selection, that would be things like height, skin, eye colours, frame etc etc etc and with modern technology thats accelerated that up with dating apps and social media where you can see more attractive people in an hour then some king has seen long before, blah blah blah I'm not the first one to say this ik ha ha
But with regards to the Intrasexual Selection how would that work today since we don't (most people in the west) live in the wild. I mean sure you have violence and crime like roberies etc, but thats not something most people experience most of the time. What would that look like today (as in same genders competing against each other)? My first question is wouldn't that be something like social circle, fame and money because thats how people "compete" with each other and "survive"? Hope this makes sense
And my second question is to do with the Sexy sons theory and good genes theory. Is this why for a male a mix of both "masculine" with some "feminine" features is wanted?
Feel free to add any more info or thoughts on this or anything related to this
Natural selection is purely the survival perspective things of things famously studied by Charles Darwin
Its how well an animal can adapt to their given environment to survive. It can include how well an animal can fight, hunt, run. How well they can camouflage in the background, how they can adapt to new diets, how well they can swim etc.
Examples of this can include but are not limited to giraffes and their necks, peppered moths (light and dark ones in england), galapagos tortoises etc
Sexual Selection is the attraction towards the opposite gender.
Within sexual selection it is divided into Intersexual and Intrasexual selection
Intrasexual selection is the competition inside a gender, such as male deer using their antlers to fight with each other to see who's stronger, or seals
Intersexual selection is selecting a partner to reproduce with (most cases the female animal choosing the male animal) and this could be based on things such as certain patterns, sizes of animals, certain features etc
And then within the Intersexual Selection there are two theories for how a partner is chosen. The sexy sons theory and the good genes theory
The sexy sons theory is that the partner will be chosen based on traits which most likely will make the offspring appear most sexy ( so they can have an easy chance with getting a partner so they can reproduce and so on) such as more colours on a bird, the size of the feathers on a peacock
The Good Genes theory is that the partner will be chosen based upon traits which are deemed to help with survival which the offspring will get such as height, strength, size of body etc
However, a balance should be present in an animal so that they can both survive and be attractive. For example with the peacock, the bigger and brighter the feathers the more attractive he will be with the females, but at the same time the more likely he is to be spotted and hunted by predators up in the food chain (such as the example below where the rope represents the peacock being in between both 50/50 for benefit and cost where the female wants to mate but the feathers are not TOO big that the predator will find it so easy to eat the peacock
This it the same for humans.
We want good looking partners, and good looking children who are healthy and will be attractive and strong and thats perfectly normal.
For the Intersexual selection, that would be things like height, skin, eye colours, frame etc etc etc and with modern technology thats accelerated that up with dating apps and social media where you can see more attractive people in an hour then some king has seen long before, blah blah blah I'm not the first one to say this ik ha ha
But with regards to the Intrasexual Selection how would that work today since we don't (most people in the west) live in the wild. I mean sure you have violence and crime like roberies etc, but thats not something most people experience most of the time. What would that look like today (as in same genders competing against each other)? My first question is wouldn't that be something like social circle, fame and money because thats how people "compete" with each other and "survive"? Hope this makes sense
And my second question is to do with the Sexy sons theory and good genes theory. Is this why for a male a mix of both "masculine" with some "feminine" features is wanted?
Feel free to add any more info or thoughts on this or anything related to this
