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Evolutionary psychologist 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> In some mating contexts, 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> However, the overall evidence suggests such behavior and intelligence evolved through through [[intrasexual competition]] and survival selection rather than sexual selection. Men with a [[dark triad|dark personality]] do have higher reproductive success and at least some women are sexually attracted to such men (see [[#Maladaptiveness|below]]), which may be a potential trait that has been sexually selected and/or that is under sexual selection, and possibly, runaway selection.