Do you think humanity have slowly evolved their brain power, making brain-power leaps over the last few centuries; or do you think we have always had this potential as a species, we just needed to learn the facts and derive the experiences?
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The very first human civilization, thought to be relatively primitive, still fighting the elements of nature, developing basic tools and trades and agriculture. It astounded me to learn that this race of people actually considered and thought about abstract mathematical concepts... concepts that seem completely irrelevant to the times... but they chose to concern themselves nonetheless. It just seems miraculous to me that we have had such potential and cognitive power at such an early stage of human development. It makes me wonder where it all came from. Did the ape-men that preceded them also consider such things to a lesser degree? Do apes now? At what point did the physical human form go from being incapable to capable? If the animal-men that preceded the human species had the potential to grow and develop, why didnt advanced monkey civilizations develop earlier? If intellectual potential is a slowly evolved ability, why was the first human civilization capable of such remarkable feats? And why werent early homosapiens capable of more?
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This is a great question. First of all do humans evolve anymore? As we no longer live in a world of survival of the fittest (everyone survives) some of the evolutionary function no longer exists. Nature or nurture? These days we are standing on the shoulders of giants, for example: could I have figured out Newtons laws.... no, can I use them to understand lots of stuff... yes. I doubt we are getting smarter as a race (read the tabloids ;o)). Selective breeding in groups. Smart people pop up all over the place but they tend to group together over time at college, in jobs (or answer bag), so sometimes they get it on and have families which may be are slightly smarter. There children (I like to think of them as Hypergeeks) might be genetically smarter and they will often be nutured by they smart parents. Discuss...
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