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=== Behavior === | === 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.<ref name="mm">https://ontherapyaspse.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/geoffrey-miller-the-mating-mind.pdf</ref> 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 name="mm"></ref> | 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.<ref name="mm">https://ontherapyaspse.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/geoffrey-miller-the-mating-mind.pdf</ref> 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 name="mm"></ref> There is, however, strong counter-evidence for this hypothesis. | ||
== Examples == | == Examples == | ||