OK—I hadn’t seen that. One problem that I see is that the conversation continues—from my perspective—as though the point has not been made. Also, the second post you objected to contains barely a hint of sexual selection.
You had better ban me from mentioning The Baldwin Effect as well—or else, I’ll be tempted to shift to those grounds—since that provides similar mechanisms.
Indeed, plain natural selection is often selection by intelligence as well—male combat leaves you dead, for example, not just unable to reproduce—and males get to choose whether they stand and fight or run and hide, with their brains—and information relating to the consequences of their choices thus winds up in the germ line.
Intelligence is so deeply embedded into the history of human evolution, it’s hard to discuss the phenomenon sensibly at all without paying the idea lip service—but I’ll give it a whirl for a while.
OK—I hadn’t seen that. One problem that I see is that the conversation continues—from my perspective—as though the point has not been made. Also, the second post you objected to contains barely a hint of sexual selection.
You had better ban me from mentioning The Baldwin Effect as well—or else, I’ll be tempted to shift to those grounds—since that provides similar mechanisms.
Indeed, plain natural selection is often selection by intelligence as well—male combat leaves you dead, for example, not just unable to reproduce—and males get to choose whether they stand and fight or run and hide, with their brains—and information relating to the consequences of their choices thus winds up in the germ line.
Intelligence is so deeply embedded into the history of human evolution, it’s hard to discuss the phenomenon sensibly at all without paying the idea lip service—but I’ll give it a whirl for a while.