WE are becoming the zombie apocalypse! Er...well, YOU are.
Study suggests humans are slowly but surely losing intellectual and emotional abilities
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-humans-slowly-surely-intellectual-emotional.html#ajTabs
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. Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-humans-slowly-surely-intellectual-emotional.html#jCpHuman 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. Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-humans-slowly-surely-intellectual-emotional.html#jCpHuman 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. Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-humans-slowly-surely-intellectual-emotional.html#jCpHuman 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. Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-humans-slowly-surely-intellectual-emotional.html#jCp
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