The Disadvantage of Smarts(economist.com)

3 pointsby paulsuttervor 14 Jahren2 comments

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2012/06/quick-study-satoshi-kanazawa-intelligence

2 comments

hardwearvor 14 Jahren

However, for a few evolutionarily novel problems, evolution equipped us with general intelligence so that our ancestors could reason in order to solve them. These evolutionarily novel problems were few and far between.

This implies that the evolutionary selection of intelligence was sexual selection, that our brains evolved like a peacock's tail.

apivor 14 Jahren

Loads of broad, sweeping, but mostly unsubstantiated statements presented in a catchy manner. Pop evolutionary psychology at its worst.