(November 6, 2012 at 5:57 pm)John V Wrote:LOL!(November 6, 2012 at 5:33 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Indeed you did... I must have misinterpreted it. Sorry about that...Think about it in terms of natural selection. Technology allows more and dumber people to survive and reproduce. It also allows people to score and not reproduce. If those people tend to be the more intelligent ones, that's another blow to average fitness.
Then you say they were smarter than we are now. Like I said, they knew about their environment, like we know about ours. We keep adapting to new things... back then, new things were not that common...
Not that I think of it only in those terms, but those might make sense to you.
Reminds me of this movie: