How would you explain homosexuality with this model? Historically, it has actually cost in terms of status, certainly doesn't confer reproductive fitness on the

How would you explain homosexuality with this model? Historically, it has actually cost in terms of status, certainly doesn't confer reproductive fitness on the individual, and sorely restricts the individual's sexual market. It falls apart rather quickly without the tell-tale signs of a tortured model, like modelling our solar system as the motion of circles because you won't admit the ellipse. You can do it, but you probably just need a better model. For starters, the over-focus on the individual misses competition at level above and below, genes and groups. Secondly, it glosses over emergent phenomena too glibly. If you try to model a presidential election in terms of quantum physics and general relativity, you won't get very far. I can even point out an emergent phenomenon that radically changes this calculus, the human frontal lobes. Unlike most animals, we can suppress our immediate reactions and get mental time and distance from the world, to remap our motivations and act in ways completely absurd from the point of status and sexual market value, like suicide bombings. Status and sexual market value drop to dead zero. You can try to tie it back to status and sexual market value, passing through the activity of the frontal lobes, which would only prove my point about emergent phenomena and a tortured model. "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken