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by consumer451 1 day ago
There is even a controversial theory that individual human intelligence peaked around 3000 years ago.

> Crabtree bases his argument on the fact that, for more than 99 percent of human evolutionary history, we have lived as hunter-gatherer communities, which has led to big-brained humans. Since the development of agriculture and cities, however, natural selection on our intellect has effectively stopped and mutations have accumulated in the critical intelligence genes.

https://wcuquad.com/101393/news/humans-are-no-longer-as-inte...