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Mating choices and acceptance are both a negotiation and a competition. So mating strategies are open ended in complexity as different mating roles each adapt
by Nevermark 2y ago
Mating choices and acceptance are both a negotiation and a competition.
So mating strategies are open ended in complexity as different mating roles each adapt to adaptions in the other role, and in competitors with the same role.
The plethora of absolutely odd mating practices in the natural world demonstrates that. Almost any aspect of an animal and its behaviors can be co-opted into being a mating factor, at which point selection takes that characteristic to crazy places completely unrelated to its original form and function.
- carapace 2y agoYou're talking about evolution, I'm talking about thought. (Bateson said they were the same thing, just one faster than the other, but that's a bit heavy for a sunny Sunday morning.)
- Bluestein 2y ago> Bateson said they were the same thing Sounds interesting.-
- carapace 2y agoGregory Bateson I think it was either in "Steps to Ecology of Mind" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind or "Mind and Nature: a Necessary Unity" or both.
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