>>16648316
>When did having superior intelligence become an evolutionary disadvantage?
It never did. Millennia of selective breeding made it such that superior intelligence is often accompanied with weakling genetics. The breakdown of marriage in the last halfcentury no longer assures weakling genes will reproduce.

>>16656700
It's more nuanced than that. Modern Europeans are a domesticated animal that comes in different breeds. Paleolithic Europeans were at once extremely intelligent and physically impressive with tall stature, massive jaws and huge frames. The general dimorphism we see today between the frail weakling but high IQ nerd and the low IQ but physically impressive jock is not an essential characteristic of humanity but a product of the neolithic revolution that removed many darwinian pressures and where complex social institutions developed to control resources, labor and reproduction and the resulting stratification of society into distinct endogamous castes.

Primordial mankind was a "Jock Nerd", basically a race of superhumans compared to modern populations. Pic related, the skull is CroMagnon1, a male with a brain size of 1600cc, some 200cc larger than the average modern human. It dates back 30k years, yet his features place him way ahead of modern humans from an evolutionary standpoint. Note the brick shape and robustness of the skull, the rectangular hunter eye orbitals and the heftiness of the jaw. This was a highly intelligent and terrifying killer who lived an extremely dangerous and violent lifestyle hunting mammoths and engaging in combat with other human groups.

And as it relates to what women are attracted to? Well, they still retained their attraction to the primordial Paleolithic European: tall, strong, robust AND intelligent. Because the dictates of attraction are immutable. Similarly, a domesticated bitch (female dog) would be more attracted to an intelligent strong male wolf that is adept at hunting than a harmless impotent male pug.

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