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=== Behavior ===
=== Behavior ===
Geoffrey Miller suggested strong positive-feedback processes in sexual selection to have given rise to higher human cognition and behavior, which he regards as too advanced and exaggerated for the necessities of human survival. Indeed, intelligence itself is sexually attractive with the most attractive IQ score being 120, far above average intelligence.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321640585</ref> Much of male courtship consists 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]].
Geoffrey Miller suggested strong positive-feedback processes in sexual selection to have given rise to higher [[IQ|human cognition]] and behavior, which he regards as too advanced and exaggerated for the necessities of human survival. Indeed, intelligence itself is sexually attractive with the most attractive IQ score being 120, far above average intelligence.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321640585</ref> Much of male courtship consists 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 ==
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