The Disadvantage of Smarts(economist.com)

3 pointsby paulsutter14 ปีที่แล้ว2 comments

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

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hardwear14 ปีที่แล้ว

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.

api14 ปีที่แล้ว

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