I Know That Even The Curse-to-hideousness-for-sexual-harrasment Idea Of The Muscovy Duck's Appearance's

I know that even the curse-to-hideousness-for-sexual-harrasment idea of the Muscovy duck's appearance's origin is still slightly controversial, but has any study been done on how the ugliness of the Muscovy duck builds on itself? Specifically, is it because they continue sexual harassment, or is it worsening to keep pace with intensifying sexual harassment by Muscovy ducks?

It is purely a function of how many generations distant any particular duck is from the original curse!For a while the general hypothesis was as you suggest, that uglification depended upon action; this is known as the Depravity hypothesis and has since been debunked as longitudinal population studies became possible. The more researchers focussed on long-term familial behaviour, the clearer it became that the number of sexual assaults committed by these ducks had only a loose correlation to their resultant offspring’s attractiveness. 

[image source]The key to this understanding was, ironically enough, in the outliers. While the bulk of the single-generation data fit the Depravity hypothesis, instances of ducks abstaining from non-consensual sexual contact producing malformed offspring kept popping up. Conversely, there were a couple of noted instances of a particularly predacious duck producing offspring that looked a couple of steps higher on the aesthetic scale than the more chaste outliers. As all studies until that point depended only on single generation parent-child data, they missed the greater implication presented by the outliers.

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When looked at longitudinally (i.e. tracing family lines) it became apparent that ducks whose lineage generally reproduced later in life strongly tended towards less-disturbing offspring regardless of how often or how seldom they committed sexual assault. By waiting a mere two years past the duck’s median reproductive age, families could be two full generations ‘behind’ every time six ‘average’ generations pass. Compound this over the centuries elapsed since the curse and you end up with familial lines fifty to even a hundred generations behind!

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So in summation: The uglier a Muscovy duck, the more generations have elapsed since the original curse. All of the ducks featured in this post are contemporary to each other, but separated by scores of generations. Thank you @kingofherrings for asking this question!

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