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Matt Ridley Interview

The Mating Grounds Podcast

CHAPTER

Runaway Selection With Peacock Tails - Human Intelligence

If something is sexually selected, then you'd only find it in one species. You would not expect the females have a large brain if the brain was sexually selected. Sexual selection can work on both sexes at once. So it's not impossible that a female would be interested in a male's mental creativity and vice versa.

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