Re: Financial topics
Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2015 1:01 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... pidly.html
They're saying the typical hunter gatherer of 7,300 years ago could outrun today's top athletes. That's not too surprising, but it's a bit harder to believe that brain volume has shrunk 10%. Does that mean our ancestors of 7,300 years ago were more intelligent, however that is defined? Was surviving in the world of 7,300 years ago more difficult and did it require more intelligence? Are there any modern hunter gatherers who are larger and "more robust" than today's "industrialized" humans?Experts say humans are past their peak and that modern-day people are 10 per cent smaller and shorter than their hunter-gatherer ancestors.
And if that’s not depressing enough, our brains are also smaller.
The findings reverse perceived wisdom that humans have grown taller and larger, a belief which has grown from data on more recent physical development.
The decline, said scientists, has happened over the past 10,000 years. They blame agriculture, with restricted diets and urbanisation compromising health and leading to the spread of disease.
The theory has emerged from studies of fossilised human remains found in Africa, Europe and Asia.
The earliest, from Ethiopia, date back 200,000 years, and were larger and ‘more robust’ than their modern-day counterparts, said Dr Marta Lahr, an expert in human evolution.