Speaking of that Scientific American has an article on intelligence this month. It says that we, as a species, can get no smarter. More intelligence would be accompanied with reduced reaction times and more energy use. It would not work out.
Last year, read a book on human intelligence. It states that we are evolving more rapidly that ever. With a large population chances for a positive mutation are good. This mutation will propagate widely within a few 100 years. He used the average intelligence of the Askingin Jew as a case and point. This intelligence climbed up a notch over the last 300 years. I forgot the name of the book. Mitcho Kaku has stated that human evolution has stopped since there currently is no selection pressure. We are as smart as we are going to get. Without a selection pressure has human evolution reversed? I wish I knew. Frank Z
