Humans still evolving as our brains shrink!

Steel X said:
That's true...Elephants NEVER forget anything. Besides, I don't think brain sizes really matter...it's all depends down to the abilities of what you can do and what you can't do.
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How much does an elephant really have to remember? :giggle:
 
Reba said:
How much does an elephant really have to remember? :giggle:
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*shrugs* Beats me...it's interesting that they live around about the same time as we do...average life span is 80 years on the elephants as 70 to 80 yrs for humans.
 
How can we start using more than 10% of our brains? Any strategies?
 
I don't think it means that we are getting dumber although there are some things that humans are dumb. I think our brain is refining itself. The analog is the desktop we have today is more powerful than the roomful of computers back in 60's.
 
Elephants are so cool! The matriarch leads a group of elephants (which are mainly females in a family blood line) by using her memory of routes that will lead herself and the group to food and water during a drought.

Elephants' Legendary Memories May Be Key to Their Survival - NatGeo News Watch

Elephants are one of the most intelligent, sensitive animals on the planet, perhaps even approaching human intelligence and emotion. They understand about death, communicate constantly. They can plan ahead, foresee their own mortality, suffer unhappiness and comfort fellow elephants in pain. They live in societies, not just mere herds.
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Northern Planets: Breakdown of elephant culture
 
Buffalo said:
I don't think it means that we are getting dumber although there are some things that humans are dumb. I think our brain is refining itself. The analog is the desktop we have today is more powerful than the roomful of computers back in 60's.
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She is correct. Our brains getting smaller doesn't mean we are getting dumber...think of this as an hardware upgrade that is smaller and lighter with more memory expanded than the original upgrade with less memory, etc.

That's what our brains is like, now. We will still continue to evolve and continue to survive for many more centuries to come. It's all part of nature's way.

Thousands of years ago, people were much smaller then and today we are getting taller...if you notice the beds and tubs made a couple centuries ago, you would notice they were smaller than present's beds and tubs now.

Obviously thats one of the hints to our evolution.
 
souggy said:
Yes, but one has to develop good habits. When you're 18, 20, 25, 30-- you don't want to start new habits. Very few people actually do break their old habits.
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Speaking of age...I heard the brain stops "growing" at the age of 18 when you reach adult hood, but I could be wrong.

Evolution is actually complicated than you would think. It takes up ALOT of survival and reproduction to keep this up and many other things.
 
I remember that the first 5 years of life is critical for brain development. It may not matter for size but maybe the structure matters? If we are starting to develop poor structured brains, those could be carried down the generations...

If only we have benchmark tests for brains!
 
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