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fitness indicator hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Evolutionary psychology

the proposal that traits such as intelligence and creativity were sexually selected as displays revealing underlying genetic quality and low mutation load.

In evolutionary psychology, fitness indicator hypothesis refers to the proposal that traits such as intelligence and creativity were sexually selected as displays revealing underlying genetic quality and low mutation load. This meaning comes from Miller (2000) in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.[1]

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  1. Miller, G. (2000). Mental Traits as Fitness Indicators: Expanding Evolutionary Psychology's Adaptationism. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 907(1), 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06616.x

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