http://discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-modern-humans-smart-why-brain-shrinking
“Which brings us to an unpleasant possibility. “You may not want to hear this,” says cognitive scientist David Geary of the University of Missouri, “but I think the best explanation for the decline in our brain size is the idiocracy theory.” Geary is referring to the eponymous 2006 film by Mike Judge about an ordinary guy who becomes involved in a hibernation experiment at the dawn of the 21st century. When he wakes up 500 years later, he is easily the smartest person on the dumbed-down planet. “I think something a little bit like that happened to us,” Geary says. In other words, idiocracy is where we are now.”
Reminds me of something…
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As we discovered in studying brain injury, the human brain grows in response to activity, and NOT vice versa, as is commonly misunderstood.
the people who misunderstand rather prove the point