This claim is quite popular among our communities. It is used as a way of pointing out the failures of female selection.
According to this claim, women aren't selecting the best genes in order to facilitate our evolution because they don't run after high IQ men.
While this may be true, I connected some dots and came up with an interesting explanation to why women don't run after high IQ men.
Before I jump straight into it, I would like to remind you that I am not doing this because I want to spread chaos across our communities. I just want to look carefully at the evidence and see whether we should change our claims or not.
As we know, women are highly attracted to handsome, tall, and Caucasian men, preferably White men. The order for attraction is face, height, and race.
What we should note, however, is that those qualities mentioned above are correlated with intelligence to a certain degree.
I suppose we should start off with face. There is some evidence to suggest that beautiful people, especially if they are men, are generally more intelligent than ugly people.
How come? Because the same factors which allowed their beauty to evolve are the ones responsible for an increase in overall intelligence. For example, an early childhood free from stress and pathogens may produce a healthier offspring with full brain development, plus a decent diet along with several other environmental factors may also contribute to body development. This adaptation usually takes generations to occur and greatly shapes the genetic make-up of the individuals.
Another explanation to why beautiful people are more intelligent than ugly people is the assortative mating strategy, when intelligent men from upper classes marry beautiful women from lower classes. Since both intelligence and beauty are highly heritable characteristics, the result of such matches is generally intelligent and beautiful offsprings, which also helps to explain the association between beauty and intelligence.
Some illustrations from the article I linked:
Now we focus on height. There is some evidence to suggest that taller men are more intelligent than their shorter counterparts. Because taller men may have had a physical advantage over shorter men in the ancestral environment where people had to compete for resources, they were more likely to occupy the upper classes. The upper classes had more access to education and healthy food. Both education and healthy food stimulate the brain development of the individuals so much so that from generation to generation people started getting more intelligent. As a healthy diet and better standards of living also contribute to height growth, especially in environments where life is way harder, people were expected to grow taller as their intelligence increased.
In addition, taller people lived in the urban areas, whereas shorter people lived in the rural areas, historically speaking. As people living in the urban areas had greater access to education and technology than people living in the rural areas, the former is expected to be more intellectually advanced than the latter.
It could also be that the same genes which produce taller people are also responsible for producing intelligent people. This is an easy explanation, but it certainly does not tell the whole story.
Curiously, this also helps explain why men score slightly higher than women on IQ tests. Men are biologically taller than women.
For more information on the issue, please read this study.
Finally, we analyze race. To put it simply, Whites are the most creative race on the planet. East Asians score higher than Whites on IQ tests, but Whites are responsible for nearly all significant scientific and artistic achievements throughout history.
It is true that geniuses are a tiny percentage of the White population. However, the gene pool which sometimes allows geniuses to be born within the White population only exists because average people pass their genes onto the next generations. In other words, if it weren't for average Whites breeding children and consequently adding to the gene pool, the odds of geniuses being born would be significantly lower. Whites carry the genetic mutations for higher intelligence in their DNA.
From the book Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray:
Other types of Caucasians, such as Ashkenazi Jews and Arabs, may also have higher intelligence in some cases, but in this post I wanted to solely focus on the White race because it is the most desirable to women, excluding Black women, in long-term relationships.
The point of this thread was to demonstrate that, by sexually selecting handsome, tall, and White men, women are indirectly adding intelligence to the gene pool.
Why don't they run after highly intelligent men? It could be that a population has to rely on averageness in order to survive. High IQ people have pushed humanity forwards throughout history, but it certainly is no advantage for women to breed millions of high IQ people, as such an event could result in imbalance within the population.
Remember: one of the fundamental universal laws is balance.
Millions of high IQ individuals could either cooperate or battle for resources. Millions of high IQ individuals could commit suicide due to a higher level of consciousness that might result in severe depression.
Besides, millions of high IQ people would be more likely to produce less intelligent children from generation to generation. This phenomenon is known as regression to the mean.
From Wikipedia:
In other words, the descendants of high IQ men sexually selected by women would be as intelligent as the previous population. So it does not make a huge difference in the end, whether women select high IQ men or men with higher average IQs.
Conclusion: women are indirectly selecting intelligence when they run after handsome, tall, and Caucasian men, preferably White men.
According to this claim, women aren't selecting the best genes in order to facilitate our evolution because they don't run after high IQ men.
While this may be true, I connected some dots and came up with an interesting explanation to why women don't run after high IQ men.
Before I jump straight into it, I would like to remind you that I am not doing this because I want to spread chaos across our communities. I just want to look carefully at the evidence and see whether we should change our claims or not.
As we know, women are highly attracted to handsome, tall, and Caucasian men, preferably White men. The order for attraction is face, height, and race.
What we should note, however, is that those qualities mentioned above are correlated with intelligence to a certain degree.
I suppose we should start off with face. There is some evidence to suggest that beautiful people, especially if they are men, are generally more intelligent than ugly people.
How come? Because the same factors which allowed their beauty to evolve are the ones responsible for an increase in overall intelligence. For example, an early childhood free from stress and pathogens may produce a healthier offspring with full brain development, plus a decent diet along with several other environmental factors may also contribute to body development. This adaptation usually takes generations to occur and greatly shapes the genetic make-up of the individuals.
Another explanation to why beautiful people are more intelligent than ugly people is the assortative mating strategy, when intelligent men from upper classes marry beautiful women from lower classes. Since both intelligence and beauty are highly heritable characteristics, the result of such matches is generally intelligent and beautiful offsprings, which also helps to explain the association between beauty and intelligence.
Some illustrations from the article I linked:
Now we focus on height. There is some evidence to suggest that taller men are more intelligent than their shorter counterparts. Because taller men may have had a physical advantage over shorter men in the ancestral environment where people had to compete for resources, they were more likely to occupy the upper classes. The upper classes had more access to education and healthy food. Both education and healthy food stimulate the brain development of the individuals so much so that from generation to generation people started getting more intelligent. As a healthy diet and better standards of living also contribute to height growth, especially in environments where life is way harder, people were expected to grow taller as their intelligence increased.
In addition, taller people lived in the urban areas, whereas shorter people lived in the rural areas, historically speaking. As people living in the urban areas had greater access to education and technology than people living in the rural areas, the former is expected to be more intellectually advanced than the latter.
It could also be that the same genes which produce taller people are also responsible for producing intelligent people. This is an easy explanation, but it certainly does not tell the whole story.
Curiously, this also helps explain why men score slightly higher than women on IQ tests. Men are biologically taller than women.
For more information on the issue, please read this study.
Finally, we analyze race. To put it simply, Whites are the most creative race on the planet. East Asians score higher than Whites on IQ tests, but Whites are responsible for nearly all significant scientific and artistic achievements throughout history.
It is true that geniuses are a tiny percentage of the White population. However, the gene pool which sometimes allows geniuses to be born within the White population only exists because average people pass their genes onto the next generations. In other words, if it weren't for average Whites breeding children and consequently adding to the gene pool, the odds of geniuses being born would be significantly lower. Whites carry the genetic mutations for higher intelligence in their DNA.
From the book Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray:
Other types of Caucasians, such as Ashkenazi Jews and Arabs, may also have higher intelligence in some cases, but in this post I wanted to solely focus on the White race because it is the most desirable to women, excluding Black women, in long-term relationships.
The point of this thread was to demonstrate that, by sexually selecting handsome, tall, and White men, women are indirectly adding intelligence to the gene pool.
Why don't they run after highly intelligent men? It could be that a population has to rely on averageness in order to survive. High IQ people have pushed humanity forwards throughout history, but it certainly is no advantage for women to breed millions of high IQ people, as such an event could result in imbalance within the population.
Remember: one of the fundamental universal laws is balance.
Millions of high IQ individuals could either cooperate or battle for resources. Millions of high IQ individuals could commit suicide due to a higher level of consciousness that might result in severe depression.
Besides, millions of high IQ people would be more likely to produce less intelligent children from generation to generation. This phenomenon is known as regression to the mean.
From Wikipedia:
In other words, the descendants of high IQ men sexually selected by women would be as intelligent as the previous population. So it does not make a huge difference in the end, whether women select high IQ men or men with higher average IQs.
Conclusion: women are indirectly selecting intelligence when they run after handsome, tall, and Caucasian men, preferably White men.
