I’d just like to point out that movie may be dead-on prescient, but it is a cultural and not an evolutionary phenomenon. There can be massive swings in intelligence from person to person; there are savants and there are retards. If you happen to compare a member of the Bach family with Billy Bob Quarterback, there, it would be unfortunate if the former stayed barren while the latter went forth and multiplied.
However, there isn’t much variance in human jntellegence across the entire gene pool. Most of us fall within a certain range, and the extremes of the bell curve never cause sudden shifts to genius or stupidity. It is highly unlikely general intelligence will decline for biological reasons. Much more likely are political, sociological, and cultural causes.
Humans have been genetically pretty much the same for 65,000 years or so. What’s changed since the agricultural and other revolutions is what we learn after we’re alive.
That was my first thought!!!!
What a great movie.
That was my first thought!!!!
What a great movie.