[ninjay]

"Are we more intelligent than homo sapiens 3000 years ago?"

We might be. Unless the Flynn effect[0] is around to just make us feel good about ourselves. We only have data as far back as the 1930's, but this trend could have been around for a while.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

[polyfractal]

Hadn't seen this before, interesting. Learn something new every day =)