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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 consist in eliciting super stimuli in women's brains by cognitive performances 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]]. | Miller suggested strong positive-feedback processes in sexual selection to have given rise to higher human cognition, which he regards as too advanced and exaggerated for the necessities of human survival. Much of male courtship may consist in eliciting super stimuli in women's brains by cognitive performances 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 == | ||