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A book that obstacles common misconceptions about the type of cleverness. Satoshi Kanazawa's Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (written with Alan S. Miller) was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "a rollicking bit of pop Knowledge & Technology that converts the lens of evolutionary psychology on issues of the day." That book answered such getting rid of questions as why women have a tendency to lust after men who already have mates and why newborns look more like Dad than Mother. Now Kanazawa tackles the type of cleverness: what it is, what it can, what it is good for (if anything). Highly enjoyable, smart (dare we say brilliant?), and daringly contrarian, The Intellect Paradox will provide a deeper knowledge of what cleverness is, and what this means for us inside our lives.
- Asks why more brilliant individuals are not better (and are, in truth, often worse) than less brilliant individuals in dealing with some of the most important problems in life - such as finding a mate, increasing children, and making friends
- Discusses why liberals tend to be more brilliant than conservatives, why atheists tend to be more brilliant than the spiritual, why more brilliant men value monogamy, why nights owls tend to be more intelligent than morning larks, and why homosexuals tend to be more brilliant than heterosexuals
- Explores how the purpose for which general intelligence evolved - dealing with evolutionarily novel problems - we can explain why brilliant people have this values and personal preferences they may have
