that said, i do agree that this is a type of variation that has the potential to be game changing should we find ourselves in the proper environment - which would need to be constructed by nerds. in the end, the nerds may inherit the earth, but only if they build it in such a way that they give themselves an advantage.
and, we're always under threat of being beaten up and having our technology stolen at recess.
the bottom line is that intellectual capacity of this type is probably never going to be an evolutionary advantage in any kind of strict sense. the best applicable model is sympatric, but what that would suggest is not the evolution of the entire species to some kind of higher state but a small population of nerds splitting off. it would basically have to be class-based. and i think that kind of class division really strains the boundaries of plausibility - and would also take quite some time to happen.
but, the increasing prevalence of asperger's type behaviour may very well indicate a type of variation in the human population that will both be with us very far into the future and create increasingly disparate types of people. and, we may end up face-to-face with needing to deal with a type of specialization that is genetic as much as it is economic.
paul tidwell
+deathtokoalas The nerds won't outbreeed the jocks for the simple fact that they're rational enough to plan to have fewer kids because finance.
Gea Vox
+deathtokoalas Evolution works in a disordered and uneven fashion, throwing up variants all the time. Those that give people who possess them evolutionary advantages succeed, breed and are passed on, those that do not, or even hamper, fail and their scions die out.
Gea Vox
+paul tidwell On the contrary, the "jocks" will not be able to keep up with the increasingly complex demands of the world the Neurodiverse are creating everyday. The "jocks" will end up being the farmers and labourers, instructed and guided by the Neurodiverse to build the world the NDs need and want. Endof. It's called evolution and Neanderthals - way sturdier and stronger then Homo Sapiens - became extinct, while the smaller but brainier HS triumphed... [Evolutyionary] History is repeating itself... Bye Bye Jocks! See you at the slave markets... 10 a penny!
deathtokoalas
+Gea Vox well, i think the evidence actually suggests that sapiens absorbed neanderthalensis, and that it's kind of wrong to think of them as a separate species in the first place.
but, what you're describing has been tried and abandoned by various ruling classes, because you can't hold a slave society without it revolting. it's this model that humans keep trying to implement, and yet keeps failing.
it follows that your proposal of elite nerd dominance - while perhaps not unreasonable - does not lead to your outcome of nerd evolution. it just leads to a stratified society, with a growing slave base that will eventually tear that elite down.
you can't get around it. in order for this to happen, nerds have to get laid more often than jocks.