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Evolution is faster with intelligence because you get more advanced sexual selection

• simonh 11y ago
  Can you clarify what you mean by advanced? Edit: I can't reply to your reply, but I can edit this post. Unless the form that mate selection takes radically diverges from evolved patterns I don;t see how that makes much difference. Since survival for intelligent species is much more loosely coupled to their biology I don't see why sexual selection strategies would mitigate against that. It seems to me they'd follow the same pattern in devaluing biological fitness criteria as not being as significant as they were pre-sentience.
  • harryjo 11y ago
    Intelligent individuals can be very quirkily selective with who they mate, dooming otherwise viable genetic lines to non-reproduction.
  • RevRal 11y ago
    (You're probably already aware of this but just in case you're not...) HN restricts the timing of replies deeper into conversations, sometimes annoying but it suppresses flame wars and what-have-yous.