Talk:Koinophilia
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Wow...how humbling....I'm a scientist and I don't understand this page - the vocab is way over my head. Please could it be rewritten in lay speak by someone who understands it? Lystrablue 08:42, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
- I agree, I stuck the "technical" tag above. Specifically The evolutionary problem is quite dense. --zandperl 14:41, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
Actually it's a stupid rant in the part where bi-sex and asex is justified on koinophilia... But I guess that since koinophilia explains that people are attracted more to the average more arseholes breed together and consequently there's more chance new generations are arseholes themselves... So probability is that some arsehole got his hands in this and screwed.
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This topic got me thinking about something...
Seems like an attraction to features that are more common in younger individuals would have fitness value inasmuch as the difference between generations might be the result of some fitness value of those features (either for natural selection or sexual selection). The greater the fitness value of the feature, the greater you would expect to find the difference in prevalence with age, right?
OK so far? Let's pretend for a moment that we actually do have genes that cause us to be attracted to features that are more prevalent in younger individuals. Now let's say that I'm a high-school student and for the novelty of it some of the more avant-garde kids get nose-rings. No adults I know have nose rings, but some kids I know do. Might such a gene kick in to amplify the coolness factor of nose-rings? And to the extent that my (and others') attraction to nose-rings is increased, more of us will want to sport them. And the more young people that get them, the greater the difference between generations. And the greater the difference between generations, the more attractive I think it is. Voilà -- a positive feedback loop.
And then what happens if nose-rings get popular enough that lots of people I think of as distinctly older than me start to have them, too? The gene starts to turns off, because the difference in prevalence of the feature with age is decreasing.
Clearly there are other forces at work as well -- for example, getting away with rebellious behavior is a way of acquiring status, and kids look for ways to differentiate themselves. I'm just wondering whether such a gene might exist and could play a role in the steep rise and fall of fads.
AmigoNico 03:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Koinophilia section
Why is there a section titled Koinophilia within the article titled Koinophilia? This is redundant. --zandperl 14:39, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
