Artificial Intelligence In Geoffrey Miller's The Mating Mind By Geoffrey Winder

The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller
Artificial Intelligence is one of today's the most important research areas, and it is very popular with its effectiveness on providing effective solutions for almost all fields in the life. As an engineer, I’ve never thought about how human intelligence evolved before.
Thanks to this book, it gives me a unique perspective in human intelligence evolution.
Different from traditional evolutionary theory which explained intelligence as merely a byproduct of surplus brain size, Miller proposed a novel theory, namely sexual selection, to explain how and why the human mind evolved, he argues that human mind evolved, like the peacock’s tail, for courtship and mating, and thereby shaped human nature.
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A lot of animals with low intelligence are also able to survive. Miller proposes that our minds evolved not just as survival machines, but as courtship machines. He quotes peacock’s tail example to introduce his sexual selection theory. The peacock's tail evolved because peahens preferred larger, more colorful tails. Peacocks would survive better with shorter, lighter, drabber tails. But the sexual choices of peahens have made peacocks evolve big, bright plumage that takes energy to grow and time to preen, and makes it harder to escape from predators such as tigers. The peacock's tail evolved through mate choice. Its biological function is to attract peahens. He supposed that the human mind and the peacock's tail may serve similar biological functions. Women selected intelligent males for mating purposes and thereby created the human mind. He says that women liked creative story-teller, intelligent problem-solving, skillful socializing, a good sense of humor, empathic kindness, a wide vocabulary and that males therefore adopted these capacities in abundance. Surely, modern humans prefer more intelligent and more creative