“The average person today would make the average person of the Middle Ages look like a stunted stupid disease ridden moron.”
Yes the human race has advanced if you look back enough years, but if we look at recent history there SEEMS to be a split and maybe we are branching into 2 or more sub-species and one of those is grossly inferior to the other/others.
Just like I could make it look like the earth is heating or cooling or staying the same, without lying, by simply picking the start and end dates a liberal could pick a point in time, cavemen for example to PROVE humans have advanced.
Figures don’t lie, if liars don’t figure. And no I am not saying you were attempting to lie or deceive just maybe picked the wrong periods in time.
You can pick ANY start point. Humans today are taller, smarter, healthier and live longer.
We dig up human remains from all over the world and from many different times in human history. The average height made them shrimps compared to modern humans.
Height and intelligence are strongly correlated.
Our grandfather's generation, in their prime some 50-75 years ago (for most) were not as tall or as smart by any measure.
So YOU pick the time points.
And humans are not branching into sub-species. People have always mated associatively for height and intelligence and any number of other traits. Human populations are becoming less isolated as social taboos and cheap and easy worldwide travel have led to massive mixing of people.