The Human Brain is Shrinking - yes we is becoming dumber

[Dr Frook]

read this... it is long, but it is very interesting

"John Hawks is in the middle of explaining his research on human evolution when he drops a bombshell. Running down a list of changes that have occurred in our skeleton and skull since the Stone Age, the University of Wisconsin anthropologist nonchalantly adds, “And it’s also clear the brain has been shrinking.”
“Shrinking?” I ask. “I thought it was getting larger.” The whole ascent-of-man thing.
“That was true for 2 million years of our evolution,” Hawks says. “But there has been a reversal.”
He rattles off some dismaying numbers: Over the past 20,000 years, the average volume of the human male brain has decreased from 1,500 cubic centimeters to 1,350 cc, losing a chunk the size of a tennis ball. The female brain has shrunk by about the same proportion. “I’d call that major downsizing in an evolutionary eyeblink,” he says. “This happened in China, Europe, Africa—everywhere we look.” If our brain keeps dwindling at that rate over the next 20,000 years, it will start to approach the size of that found in Homo erectus, a relative that lived half a million years ago and had a brain volume of only 1,100 cc. Possibly owing to said shrinkage, it takes me a while to catch on. “Are you saying we’re getting dumber?” I ask."

continue reading here:

http://discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-modern-humans-smart-why-brain-shrinking/

[Shadow00]

Well, weve made our circle. I plan to place myself in a cryostasis chamber and wake up after 500 years, and then rule the world
Seriously now, it's obvious people are getting dumber and dumber. You know it too…

[Dr Frook]

yep, watch this movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

it actually made me depressed.

[Shadow00]

Watched it back in '08... Not really depressing, but I get tour point.

[Lamb]

Ok lets say our brain is shrinking... I it not possible that what is happening is data being compressed inside our brain,Micro sizing it?
You know,To give more room for memory?

[Dr Frook]

not likely lamb. We is dummberer. Seriously, just look at nature, intelligence isnt necessary for survival and success. If it were, I am sure there would be a lot more intelligent creatures out there on the planet. No, the most successful creatures thus far are the dumb, tough, strong ones. Humans have only been around for a short time, maybe having a big brain is a disadvantage...

[Shadow00]

Ok lets say our brain is shrinking... I it not possible that what is happening is data being compressed inside our brain,Micro sizing it?
You know,To give more room for memory?

Plus, adding to frook, if you read the complete article, scientists disprove that, saying that in 20k years we'll be back to square one.
Idiocracy indeed…

[Dr Frook]

so we all need to prepare for the GREAT BRAIN SHRINK. The day is coming, our brains will be small again. No more tech, no more cooking, we hunt again like a lion.

it will simplify our existence. No need for wars over oil, just plain simple survival and eating raw meat.

nom nom nom

[Shadow00]

I hope i live to see that day, for one…

[Blood Knight]

"Ok lets say our brain is shrinking... I it not possible that what is happening is data being compressed inside our brain,Micro sizing it?
You know,To give more room for memory?"

I agree with this, image our brains are becoming adapted to learning so much that is has to compress itself to hold it all. Take for example, you compress a file into a .ZIP folder, it still has everything inside the same but it is just compressed. Same with a .RAR file even. <---Fight against that logic. ._.

*You just got beat by the logic of Lamb & Blood*