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you probably wouldn't be surprised based on all of the retrograde right wing
social policy and
really american foreign policy at large over the last couple of decades to hear
that human intelligence may slowly be declining but that's the claim that's
being made by doctor gerald crabtree who's a stanford university researcher
and geneticist he says
that humans as a species are suffering intellectual decline
and that it has much to do with adverse genetic mutations but that human
intelligence is also suffering for other reasons
so boring to crabtree
cognitive and emotional cable cable emo tional capabilities are fueled and
determined
by the combined effort of thousands of genes if imitation occurred in any of
these genes which is unlikely
when intelligencer emotional stability can be negatively
impacted so he says
i would wager that if an average citizen from athens of one thousand bc were to
appear suddenly among us here she would be among the brightest and most
intellectually alive of our colleagues in companions were the good memory
a broad range of ideas and a clear cited view of important issues
further i would guess that he or she would be apt among the most emotionally
stable of our friends and colleagues so
i think of the number of other factors that mitigate that for example being
completely out of place not even understanding modern society
so i think it would be a little bit hard to gauge that don't you think ice now i
think
i think this holds up i think uh... ivp i've got to be assumption is that
well if you were just to take this person at there that stage of
development indian
human life
we have to compare it within their society i guess but i think it'd be a
hard comparison to make
uh...
army i have been keeping trucks someone who is our age
right out of their input is here yes but it will mean when comparing their brain
their intelligence your safety took if you raise someone you plucked someone
from there
and raise them in our society from the picnic at ca
i artery are believe they would be among the bid the brightest what this really
get set though is that darwin's theory of survival of the fittest
is less and less output of all in other words
right now because of technological and medical advancements particularly you
know certainly in the last hundred years particularly in the in the in the last
fifteen years and more broadly in the last three four hundred years
better genes don't necessarily dominate society as they would have so and
markedly in the past i think that make sense the time
yeah that makes sense uh... i don't really get the comparison with two
plucking someone out of athens from a thousand bc was a thousand these there
are those needy battalion bc
yeah i mean the average person now knows is much more knowledgeable than d
average peasant uh... which were most of the people even as recently as the
middle ages so i mean
we have two separate knowledge in a disabilities uh... but certainly i think
that
uh... i mean from what from the article that we're reading from to get this
information
he doesn't seem like it's really well argued that it's a genetic difference
and not just a societal one
uh... so in other words people playing video games and watching american idol
being a leading factor here compared with the an actual genetic change so are
literally we did see a lot more it is true that uncertain times in the past
having some basic
but genetic
disadvantages
would have made it so that you you certainly don't reproduce in very likely
don't live very long either
but now because of technology that it that that evolutionary pressure does not
seem to be a strong
no right by me know that the in terms of genetics the crap is not getting ito
filtered out data since it's staying around there is not eight porsche for
pursuit of knowledge like there was prior because well practice that
knowledge is available to us
at people don't have to be smarter stronger faster now
you can you can be at the bottom in every category
and live a perfectly good normal life in this country
in this world in a society yes uh... given some luck in terms of where you
happen to be born deaf power hitter and hit the floor we stepped interesting to
think about encourage you to check out the study