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<span style="font-size:125%">'''Discussion:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''Discussion:'''</span> | ||
In combination with Geoffrey Miller's ''mating mind'' hypothesis of human intelligence, namely that | In combination with Geoffrey Miller's ''mating mind'' hypothesis of human intelligence, namely that higher cognition and much of human behavior may have evolved though [[Fisherian runaway|positive-feedback processes]] in sexual selection, this result may suggest the struggles high-functioning autists face may in part be rooted in social exclusion based on sexually selected preferences for highly specific modes of facial and emotional expressiveness in similar manner as humans superficially, but strongly judge based on subtle cues of physical appearance despite it being largely unrelated to health and ability, i.e. it may be the ''few millimeters of emotional expressiveness'' and [[charisma]] in analogy to [[a few millimeters of bone]] that disproportionally decide about social and sexual exclusion. | ||
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