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Ever read "The Mating Mind"? In it, the author claims that big brains are part of an escalating biological war between men and women, with big brains being fitness indicators as expressed through complex behaviors.

https://www.amazon.com/Mating-Mind-Sexual-Choice-Evolution/dp/038549517X

I read that as well - great book on that and related subjects: https://www.amazon.com/Mating-Mind-Sexual-Choice-Evolution/dp/038549517X

This book explains the reasons behind this better than anything I’ve read

The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature https://www.amazon.ca/dp/038549517X/

Geoffrey Miller and other evolutionary psychologists have hypothesized that our intellect has come more from sexual selection than natural selection. A simplified version of their idea is that some of our more abstract abilities, such as the ability to produce music and other forms of art, evolved for the purpose of impressing other possible mates. He wrote a book called "The Mating Mind" that covers this subject in a lot of detail.

His Wikipedia page ) has this explanation: "Miller believes that our minds evolved not as survival machines, but as courtship machines, and proposes that the human mind's most impressive abilities are courtship tools that evolved to attract and entertain sexual partners. By switching from a survival-centred to a courtship-centred view of evolution, he attempts to show how we can understand the mysteries of mind. The main competing theories of human mental evolution are (1) selection for generalist foraging ability (i.e., hunting and gathering), as embodied in the work of researchers such as Hillard Kaplan and Kim Hill at the University of New Mexico, and (2) selection for social intelligence, as argued by Andrew Whiten, Robin Dunbar, and Simon Baron-Cohen."

Women are boring

Men are interesting

It’s evolution

Here’s a funny case study of that from birds

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/10/dark-secrets-bird-world.html

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The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/038549517X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_5VHxFbP5CCBTN