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To: rlmorel; 2ndDivisionVet
I'm not so sure. Of course our technical society has altered the basic way natural selection works, but that kind of change takes many many thousands of years to have an effect. Genetics is much more complex than the simple meme of "stupid people have more children and intelligent people have fewer, therefore the world is getting less intelligent".

So I rather doubt that people today are less intelligent. What IS true is that they know less, certainly about things that matter.

47 posted on 05/24/2013 12:49:37 AM PDT by Vanders9
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I think they were more thoughtful, and paid closer attention to the things around them.


54 posted on 05/24/2013 3:38:59 AM PDT by rlmorel ("We'll drink to good health for them that have it coming." Boss Spearman in Open Range)
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