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Courtship among humans is special due to the disproportionally large amount of resources that males provide, which is, in fact, unique among primates and also extreme compared to animals overall (see [[hypergamy]]). For this reason, human males not only engage in display of their ornament, but also their wealth, e.g. by buying an expensive ring. | Courtship among humans is special due to the disproportionally large amount of resources that males provide, which is, in fact, unique among primates and also extreme compared to animals overall (see [[hypergamy]]). For this reason, human males not only engage in display of their ornament, but also their wealth, e.g. by buying an expensive ring. | ||
Humans are less ornamented than other animals like birds, but they do have ornament which mostly | Humans are less ornamented than other animals like birds, but they do have ornament which mostly consists of smoothness, averageness and symmetry ([[beauty|simplicity]]). Such ornament and exaggerated sexual attraction to it may have evolved by [[Fisherian runaway|runaway selection]]. Courtship of both sexes involves presentation of this ornament, e.g. a male may flex his muscles and the female present breast and buttocks. | ||
Geoffrey Miller suggested that human intelligence has also been selected by runaway selection and is merely "cognitive ornament", with males eliciting super stimuli in women in order to be selected, e.g. by humour and artistic performances (see [[Fisherian runaway|Fisherian runaway § Intelligence]]). In fact, instrument building has been a near exclusively male activity across cultures.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref> | Geoffrey Miller suggested that human intelligence has also been selected by runaway selection and is merely "cognitive ornament", with males eliciting super stimuli in women in order to be selected, e.g. by humour and artistic performances (see [[Fisherian runaway|Fisherian runaway § Intelligence]]). In fact, instrument building has been a near exclusively male activity across cultures.<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#Women_were_historically_predominantly_involved_in_cooking_and_they_never_dominated_men</ref> | ||