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>>657407
>Preferring cuteness because you're... smart?
Correlation is not causality. I fear I was misunderstood, so I'll try to be as clear as possible.

You can either pop as many children as you can and don't care about them, or care really hard about your children (and pop only as many as you can support). Both of the strategies are found in mankind: the second one provably, causally, produces higher IQ children. It's one of the most stable causal link ever found in social science. Said otherwise, family works, and provide a boost of IQ for your children.

It seems that populations choosing the first reproductive strategy tend less toward neoteny, both in appreciation of its artistic merits and in expressing neoteny while growing up, while populations choosing the family-oriented reproductive strategy care more about neoteny. There are no causal links between baby face and intelligence: it's a secondary correlation at best, and one that has never been properly explored in a study or metastudy anyway.

But the discussion is far off now. Let's end it there.