| Irulan |
06-19-2018 11:23 PM |
Do you think easy safe luxurious lives full of delicious carbs and fats lower the mean IQ generationally and cause us to breed or shift natural selection to effectively store mass at the loss of functional brain capacity and motor control?
There seems to be a bottle neck on the size of an animal and its ratio to its brain size.
I think our ancestors really hit this apex and sacrificed a lot of sheer strength and mass an fat storage to maintain the most advanced and developed nervous system and fine motor control. This is when classical music broke on the scene.
It seems if an animal develops too rapidly or stores a lot of fat it limits their potential brain development because it has to divert most of its metabolism away from maintaining a very hungry and active nervous system into expensive growth and storage systems.
Oddly enough, modern humans are typically 20% leaner in BMI than apes and whales. But all this seems to be changing because it's incredibly easy to maintain a BMI over 40%
Squids and octopi are sort of an exception to the general biological rules of brain development mammals are limited by. Not sure how or why.
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