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=== Intelligence ===
=== Intelligence ===
Miller suggested strong positive-feedback processes in sexual selection to have given rise to higher human cognition, which he regards as too advanced for the necessities of human survival. Much of male courtship may consists in eliciting super stimuli in women by cognitive performance such as poetry, dancing, art and humor.<ref>https://ontherapyaspse.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/geoffrey-miller-the-mating-mind.pdf</ref>
Miller suggested strong positive-feedback processes in sexual selection to have given rise to higher human cognition, which he regards as too advanced for the necessities of human survival. Much of male courtship may consists in eliciting super stimuli in women by cognitive performance such as poetry, dancing, art and humor.<ref>https://ontherapyaspse.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/geoffrey-miller-the-mating-mind.pdf</ref> See also [[beauty#Beautiful_behavior|beautiful behavior]].


== Examples ==
== Examples ==
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