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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell, this would explain a lot -
Are humans becoming less intelligent? It could very well beHumans may be gradually losing intelligence, according to a new study.
The study, published Monday in the journal Trends in Genetics, argues that humans lost the evolutionary pressure to be smart once we started living in dense agricultural settlements several thousand years ago.
"The development of our intellectual abilities and the optimization of thousands of intelligence genes probably occurred in relatively non-verbal, dispersed groups of peoples (living) before our ancestors emerged from Africa," said study author Gerald Crabtree, a researcher at Stanford University, in a statement.
Since then it's all been downhill, Crabtree contends.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49792179/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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Well, this would explain a lot - (Original Post)
IDemo
Nov 2012
OP
Does that mean the Republicans have evolved further than us and are therefore
Live and Learn
Nov 2012
#3
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)1. Yes, Republican humans are becoming less intelligent thanks to
Fox News, Limbaugh, Beck, etc.
Sorry, just had to go there.
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)2. absolutely! nt
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)3. Does that mean the Republicans have evolved further than us and are therefore
losing intelligence before us?
jeff47
(26,549 posts)4. Sure! That's why they keep having to make IQ tests harder
Oh wait....
(Yes, I know IQ tests aren't a terribly wonderful measure of intelligence. Neither are SATs. But both keep having to be revised upwards to keep their "average" score the same)
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)5. .