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- Koinophilia abstract "Koinophilia is an evolutionary hypothesis concerning sexual selection which proposes that animals seeking mates preferentially choose individuals with a minimum of unusual or mutant features. Koinophilia intends to explain the clustering of sexual organisms into species and other issues described by Darwin's Dilemma. The term derives from the Greek, koinos, \"the usual\", and philos, \"fondness\".Natural selection causes beneficial inherited features to become more common at the expense of their disadvantageous counterparts. A sexually-reproducing animal would therefore be expected to avoid individuals with rare or unusual features, and to prefer to mate with individuals displaying a predominance of common or average features. Mutants with strange, odd or peculiar features, would also be avoided. This is advantageous because most mutations that manifest themselves as changes in appearance, functionality or behavior, are disadvantageous. Because it is impossible to judge whether a new mutation is beneficial (or might be advantageous in the unforeseeable future) or not, koinophilic animals avoid them all, at the cost of avoiding the very occasional potentially beneficial mutation. Thus, koinophilia, although not infallible in its ability to distinguish fit from unfit mates, is a good strategy when choosing a mate. A koinophilic choice ensures that offspring are likely to inherit a suite of features and attributes that have served all the members of the species well in the past.Koinophilia differs from assortative mating, (meaning \"like prefers like\"). If like preferred like, leucistic animals (such as white peacocks) would be sexually attracted to one another, and a leucistic subspecies would come into being. Koinophilia predicts that this is unlikely because leucistic animals are attracted to the average in the same way as are all the other members of its species. Since non-leucistic animals are not attracted by leucism, few leucistic individuals find mates, and leucistic lineages will rarely form.Koinophilia provides simple explanations for the almost universal canalization of sexual creatures into species, the rarity of transitional forms between species (between both extant and fossil species), evolutionary stasis, punctuated equilibria, and the evolution of cooperation. Koinophilia might also contribute to the maintenance of sexual reproduction, preventing its reversion to the much simpler and inherently more advantageous asexual form of reproduction.The koinophilia hypothesis is supported by research into the physical attractiveness of human faces by Judith Langlois and her co-workers. They found that the average of two human faces was more attractive than either of the faces from which that average was derived. The more faces (of the same gender and age) that were used in the averaging process the more attractive and appealing the average face became. This work into averageness supports koinophilia as an explanation of what constitutes a beautiful face.".
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- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Amiiformes.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Asexual_reproduction.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Assortative_mating.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Averageness.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Brassica_oleracea.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Carrion_crow.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Articles_which_contain_graphical_timelines.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Evolutionary_biology.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Population_genetics.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Reproduction_in_animals.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Selection.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sexual_selection.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Speciation.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Cauliflower.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Darwin.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Chimpanzee.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Co-operation_(evolution).
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Drosophila_melanogaster.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Drosophila_pseudoobscura.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Evolution.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Evolution_of_sexual_reproduction.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Evolutionarily_stable_strategy.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Extinction_event.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink File:Species_01a.gif.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Fitness_(biology).
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Founder_effect.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Genetic_drift.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink George_C._Williams.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Glacial_period.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Goldfish.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Group_selection.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Hominini.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Hooded_crow.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Human_evolution.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Hybrid_speciation.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Inbreeding.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink John_Maynard_Smith.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Lamarckism.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Lampriformes.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Leopard.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Leucism.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Lion.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink List_of_African_dinosaurs.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Asian_dinosaurs.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink List_of_domesticated_animals.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink List_of_domesticated_plants.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Maize.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Mate_choice.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Mating.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Mouflon.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Mutation.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Natural_selection.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Neutral_theory_of_molecular_evolution.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Physical_attractiveness.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Pleistocene.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Population_bottleneck.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Prussian_carp.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Punctuated_equilibrium.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Rate_of_evolution.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Reproductive_isolation.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Dawkins.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Sexual_selection.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Sheep.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Silent_mutation.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Small_population_size.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Speciation.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Species.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Toba_catastrophe_theory.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink Zea_(genus).
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink File:Canis_lupus_pack_surrounding_Bison.jpg.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink File:Distribution_of_carrion_and_hooded_crows_across_Europe.jpg.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink File:Drosophila_pseudoobscura-Male.png.
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- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink File:Hominidae_miocene.svg.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink File:Hominin_evolution.jpg.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink File:Kgalagadi_Springbok.JPG.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLink File:Pavo_cristatus_albino001xx.jpg.
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLinkText "Koinophilia".
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLinkText "absence of genetic or acquired defects".
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLinkText "avoid mates sporting rare or unusual features".
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLinkText "avoid mates with unusual habits or features".
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLinkText "common or familiar features".
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLinkText "find it difficult to attract a mate".
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLinkText "its range overlaps with carrion crow".
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLinkText "koinophilia".
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLinkText "prefer mates with the least number of unusual or minority features".
- Koinophilia wikiPageWikiLinkText "remarkable uniformity of all the members of a sexual species".
- Koinophilia align "top".
- Koinophilia caption Brassica_oleracea.
- Koinophilia caption Cauliflower.
- Koinophilia caption Goldfish.
- Koinophilia caption Mouflon.
- Koinophilia caption Prussian_carp.