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Encyclopedia > Runaway evolution

Fisherian runaway refers to a model of the evolution of sexual selection first proposed by Ronald Fisher in 1915


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Talk:Artificial selection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1092 words)
I did mention female breasts as an example of runaway sexual evolution because it felt appropriate at the time, and i mentioned fake breasts as a good example of artificial selection for the mere fact that they are, and they are probably the clearest example of why the two are hard to distinguish, i.e.
Artificial selection is a specific type of Baldwinian evolution, which itself is a specific type of Darwinian evolution.
It primarily arises in studies of evolutionary psychology and in particular the evolution of language in humans.
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