Posted on 11/13/2012 5:09:22 PM PST by dennisw
Of course. (I remember the name of the magazine, but never picked up a copy.)
LOL...you're bad, Eaker. From everything I've seen...'gunner is wiley and has a good eye. It's a good thing you're buds. FReepers extraordinaire BUMP!
The rising scores on IQ tests in the USA is a fact. Where is any data that it is declining? Please familiarize yourself with the Flynn effect.
This is total BS for the following reasons:
1. The average age of hunter-gatherers was about 14. Iq increases beyond that age. During the Middle Ages, 70% of the people were 14 or under which is why they seem to be a bit childish in their decisions and actions.
2. Inputs to brain activity are much higher now, exponentially higher than during the HG phase resulting in increased brain development.
3. Increased specialization of labor has placed a very high value on innovation and for the non-innovators, the ability to adapt to different circumstances and to incorporate new innovations.
4. The experience of HGs were highly repetitive solely involving the acquisition of food, housing and warmth and security.
5. The sum of all abilities of HGs are now regarded as skill sets that are fairly minor: Hunting, construction of housing using branches, leaves and mud, production of arrow and spear points using flint, etc. Basically our hobbies are the complete set of their knowledge.
6. Although most people think that agricultural life is pastoral and easy, it is not and it requires lots of thinking and action to ensure that the crops come in. This is particularly true when you have crop yields that are 1/32nd or less of our current yields. Crop yield during the last 150 years has exploded.
7. HGs were fed at close to starvation levels, particularly protein. We take in huge amounts of protein compared to the HGs and it shows in brain development.
These are just a few of the changes that have occured over tha last 40,000 years. There and many others.
What? A high protein, high fat diet will make you trim aka ketosis. I agree with your otherwise, but it is processed carbs that make you fat.
HGs also suffer from short time horizons, too much leisure and mysogynistic social structures.
Farmers live by the Law of the Harvest and must value their women - hence marriage and family become central.
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