Study suggests humans are slowly but surely losing intellectual and emotional abilities
Human intelligence and behavior require optimal functioning of a large
number of genes, which requires enormous evolutionary pressures to
maintain. A provocative hypothesis published in a recent set of Science
and Society pieces published in the Cell Press journal Trends in
Genetics suggests that we are losing our intellectual and emotional
capabilities because the intricate web of genes endowing us with our
brain power is particularly susceptible to mutations and that these
mutations are not being selected against in our modern society.
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