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Among those 'unnatural' preferences might be a tendency to produce fewer offspring owing to a more critical evaluation of the costs of raising a large family.
This would make intelligence, above a certain threshold, anti-darwinian.
It has been argued that average human cranial capacity has not increased for at least the last 100,000 years.
Could our species have long ago reached a plateau? A plateau created not by biology or chemistry but by an awareness powerful enough to undermine the 'darwinian integrity' of the limbic brain and it's pleasure centers?
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