>>13713189No, that's called "an outdated adaption". It's when a trait used to be good, but it's no longer good, but the species still has it.
>>13714718That's what the runaway model is saying.
The females who have the runaway preference for the trait get weeded out of their species' genepool, while the descendants of the ones who have the tempered preference converge to a trait that isn't retardedly exaggerated.
The only environments where we see true runaway maladaptive selection are in environments like Island Tameness, where there is no strong selective pressure from predators. This is where the birds of paradise and shit come from. However, introduce a predator, and the entire shitty species is exterminated.
Deers who select for bigger and bigger antlers get weeded out of the genepool and the females who don't care so much about ridiculous antlers have stronger offspring who survive. So the species of deer overall doesn't get retardedly big antlers. As an example.
Fisherian runaway is the mathematical model that shows stupid female sexual preference ends up going extinct. It's not saying that the species as a whole has to go extinct. Just that over time the inferior sexual preference in the female goes extinct, unless there is no outside selective pressure.
