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Study Claims Human Intelligence Peaked Two To Six Millennia Ago
eldavojohn writes "Professor Gerald "Jerry" Crabtree of Stanford's Crabtree Laboratory published a paper (PDF) that has appeared in two parts in Trends in Genetics. The paper opens with a very controversial suggestion: 'I would be willing to wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions.' From there, Crabtree speculates we're on the decline of human intelligence and we have been for at least a couple millennia. His argument suggests agriculture and, following from that, cities, have allowed us to break free of some environmental forces on competitive genetic mutations — a la Mike Judge's theory. However, the conclusion of the paper urges humans to keep calm and carry on, as any attempt to fix this genetic trend would almost certainly be futile and disturbing."
No, it was a victory of one pack of fucking moron filth voting for one alpha sociopath over another pack of fucking moron filth voting for another alpha sociopath, and both sides thinking themselves angels and the other side demons.
(golf clap) You're part of the problem, AC. I hope you and the rest of your useless ilk are fucking proud of yourselves.
Mod me down. Who fucking cares anymore? Fucking bubblehead ideologues of all flavors will ruin the world.
Let's no start on the whole schizophrenic ring wing insanity of people on welfare having too many children but birth control and abortions should be illegal. That kind of thinking really indicates that right wingers are right down there in the sub 100s. Social welfare add in free drugs to keep the happy and peaceful with added birth control the limit the next generations and patience solves the problem, except of course for loony tune right wingers.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen