Yes I agree that it is true as a whole of our spiecies. But this will not significantly effect our gaining more understanding of the world and developing more and more in creative fields.
So the need to have the best hunting skills has been replaced by: better exploitation of enviroment skills,, a long with better and more refined social skills(learning how to live together), thus causing brain computing power not to be that important of an issue to survival as it once was when we were blood thirsty savages fighty for our lives every day.
Thank you for your comment, dear Frankie (peace to you!) - I like your thinking on this.
A newspaper hardly stands for 'tangible evidence' and might I indulge you to define your version of 'theory'? Have you read the actual research paper? Do you know the study design parameters? Was this a qualitative or quantitative study?
Ummmm... I didn’t call it evidence, dear X (peace to you, as well!). Apparently, the paper (and its author and supporters) does. I gave my opinion as to whether I agree that we are getting dumber, and why, and simply asked for yours. You are more than welcome to disagree with the paper. Taking issue with ME, however, for posting about it... and what it purports... is... what?
Remember, your conclusions are not a path to the evidence you wish to support your conclusions.
What the...?? Okay, I’m thinking you didn’t read the article. They are neither my evidence OR my conclusions.
Just hoping to keep the rhetoric WAY down and a more rational, critical approach in throwing out opinions on a study that surely is multi-paged compared to a few paltry words in a newspaper article.
Well, okay, perhaps it is. If you care to expound on the contents of the paper, including whether such corroborates the assertions made in the article, please... feel free. Again, I was asking what you think about the studies’ results. Not what you think about me.
I wonder what relationship big head/brain size plays over into choosing who to mate with these day now that we need less computing power brains? This could also be another way the trend can be nuetralized in our evolutionary devlopement or at least another factor in the equation as is choosing to mate with a good provider/ etc....other factors,looks good and healthy and yummy etc...
Does the fact that some use computers today to choose mates have any bearing on this, dear Frankie? Serious question...
Since you brought up the subject of deevolution,
I realize it has other connotations, dear One (peace to you, as well!), but I used the term “devolution,” as in the process of “devolving”... which is a valid word/term, biologically speaking.
The article is crap, imo.
Interesting opinion, dear Sab (again, peace to you!). I also wonder if I could have posted that, that an article by a recognized scientist that states there is EVIDENCE that shows we are devolving intellectually is “crap”, IMHO or otherwise... and not called down the ire of half the board on my head - LOLOLOL!
It's a convoluted opinion to a problem with a simple solution. I don't like the idea of the brain biologically decreasing in intellectual capacity because that is contrary to human nature itself. We by nature transcend our environments
So, you’re saying that the scientific evidence that supposedly supports the article's assertion is bunk (or perhaps that there is no such evidence)... or that in spite of the scientific evidence we’re not devolving intellectually? Not sure I understand. And if there IS such evidence, what about that? I am also not sure that I can agree that biologically decreasing in intellectual capacity IS contrary to human "nature." I mean, even stars burn out. Perhaps we're on the down-turn, albeit slowly. Not saying we ARE... just sayin'...
Again, thank you all for your comments. I’ve learned my lesson trying to argue against the “scientific evidence”... (except where no such evidence exists; for example, with regard to the “fact” of the evolution of man from lower life forms, which does not exist – I DO get that there is a THEORY about that, though). In this case, it seems that there is actual evidence that makes the assertion a FACT... and so I just wanted to know what folks thought about that. That’s it; that’s all.
Not trying to stir up controversy; as I’ve previously admitted, I find science interesting, if not fascinating; I just don’t put my full faith in it. As at least two others here (and from opposite sides of the coin, I think), apparently don’t, either. I think this one is dead-on, though.
Peace... and again, thank you!
A slave of Christ,
SA