Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence is Slowly Declining
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by Mike Barrett
February 17th, 2013 | Updated 02/18/2013 at 2:03 pm
intelligence 265x165 Leading Geneticist: Human Intelligence is Slowly Declining
Would you be surprised to hear that the human race is slowly becoming dumber, and dumber? Despite our advancements over the last tens or even hundreds of years, some ‘experts’ believe that humans are losing cognitive capabilities and becoming more emotionally unstable. One Stanford University researcher and geneticist, Dr. Gerald Crabtree, believes that our intellectual decline as a race has much to do with adverse genetic mutations. But there is more to it than that.
According to Crabtree, our cognitive and emotional capabilities are fueled and determined by the combined effort of thousands of genes. If a mutation occurred in any of of these genes, which is quite likely, then intelligence or emotional stability can be negatively impacted.
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“I would wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our colleagues and companions, with a good memory, a broad range of ideas, and a clear-sighted view of important issues. Furthermore, I would guess that he or she would be among the most emotionally stable of our friends and colleagues,” the geneticist began his article in the scientific journal Trends in Genetics.
Further, the geneticist explains that people with specific adverse genetic mutations are more likely than ever to survive and live amongst the ‘strong.’ Darwin’s theory of ‘survival of the fittest’ is less applicable in today’s society, therefore those with better genes will not necessarily dominate in society as they would have in the past.
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UR stoopid, an gettin stoopiderer
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This is what we get for protecting and letting the genetic inferiors of the species procreate uncontrolled. Fits perfectly with my theory that intelligence can easily become an evolutionary dead end. You can be too smart for your own good is what I say.
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If an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were here, he'd set this Dr. Gerald Crabtree straight.
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He'd probably hemlock himself to death in despair over the future of humanity.Făkünamę wrote:If an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were here, he'd set this Dr. Gerald Crabtree straight.
"Seth is Grandmaster Zen Troll who trains his victims to troll themselves every time they think of him" Robert_S
"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
© 2013/2014/2015/2016 Seth, all rights reserved. No reuse, republication, duplication, or derivative work is authorized.
"All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke
"Those who support denying anyone the right to keep and bear arms for personal defense are fully complicit in every crime that might have been prevented had the victim been effectively armed." Seth
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Genetics are half however epigenetics are another three quarters and then there are memes.Seth wrote:He'd probably hemlock himself to death in despair over the future of humanity.Făkünamę wrote:If an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were here, he'd set this Dr. Gerald Crabtree straight.
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IQ is going up ever year due to an increasingly stimulating environment , we are also getting fatter as while our environment is stimulating the brain it doesnt do much for the body
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What horrible cherry picking shithole that website is. Just had a quick trawl round there.
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got any idea what their agenda is? I couldn'tAzathoth wrote:What horrible cherry picking shithole that website is. Just had a quick trawl round there.
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Eugenics?
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Did they have one? They are really subtle about it.
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When somebody calls themmselves the natural society, or advocate that, I assume there's an agenda, even if it's not obvious, because AFAIK, society is the antinomy of nature.
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Perhaps you'd prefer Science Daily:Azathoth wrote:What horrible cherry picking shithole that website is. Just had a quick trawl round there.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 135516.htm
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Apparently you didn't actually READ the Science Daily one. 
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Darwin's theory is just as applicable now as ever. It's just that when resources are plentiful, "fittest" means "fastest reproducing".Seth wrote:Darwin’s theory of ‘survival of the fittest’ is less applicable in today’s society, therefore those with better genes will not necessarily dominate in society as they would have in the past.
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Actually I did. Perhaps you didn't?Ian wrote:Apparently you didn't actually READ the Science Daily one.
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