female choice could be responsible for shaping not only a male’s body and behaviour but also his brain. This idea isn’t new. Darwin himself proposed that sexual selection could, in fact, be responsible for the exceptional evolution of human cognition – especially the more ‘self-expressive’ aspects of human behaviour, such as art, morality, language and creativity.The idea that female choice might have polished the human brain into brilliance would have been the ultimate blow to the Victorian scientific patriarchy – hitting them right between the eyes, where it hurt most.
