The concept, as cited by Ogas & Gaddam, frames an evolutionary tension: the metabolic cost of large brains may compete directly with the energy demands of large gonads. Species across the animal kingdom appear to trade off neural tissue against reproductive tissue, suggesting intelligence and mating strategy exist on a shared biological ledger. This framing reframes sexual selection not as separate from cognition but as a zero-sum resource allocation problem.
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