Is there any proof that modern humans are more intelligent than our prehistoric ancestors were?
Is there any proof that modern humans are more intelligent than our prehistoric ancestors were?
Mason Thompson
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Kayden Rodriguez
our prehistoric ancestors didnt do shit
Jack Lopez
No. Modern technology has made people weak and dumb. The ancients would look at us in shame.
Thomas Reed
Humans from 2000 years ago probably were smarter than us but the lack of electronics made them look like morons. Humans back in the neolithic era would need to be good thinker to survive in Europe, where as the original humans were most likely dumber than black people today so yes we are more intelligent than our ancient ancestors once you go to the mesolithic era.
Connor Nguyen
The Finno-korean hyperwar disproves it.
Noah Garcia
except survive, bet you wouldn't last 5 minutes in prehistoric times lol
Zachary Flores
This
Blake Scott
The human body and brain hasn't changed much at all in like 100k years. You could take a baby from about 100k years ago and raise it with today's tech & education and you'll end up with someone indistinguishable from everyone else. Vice versa if you took a baby back in time from here.
Tyler Cox
That's overly simplistic.
A major factor in the growth of "facts and mechanics and social calculation" intelligence has been war and raids.
With the rise of civilization, you had larger bands of men performing more elaborate raids and, with victory, getting more women and larger amounts of resources.
The past 10,000 years has accelerated human evolution for the characteristics that belong to conquerors who had a disproportionate effect on the gene pool.
In a sense, we are smarter than our ancestors. But our environment has become more complex and more simple at the same time. Complex in the amount of people and roles. Simple in that action and power is increasingly manipulated with more and more streamlined interfaces.
EX: Toddlers with tablets display more repetitive and "stereotyped" motor skills with their hands because they're not having as much practice manipulating complex 3-D objects with their hands.
Nathaniel Torres
this, our peak cognitive ability would have been around 5-20 thousand years ago. Our ancestors would have to know the ins and outs of the regions, have a wide variety of skills and very little specialisation. All for survival.
Yes, ours brains improved as our societies got more complex and our language developed more (language was probably the main driver for brain development to begin with, along with precision motor skills).