{"id":629,"date":"2013-04-17T14:55:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T19:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:34:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:34:59","slug":"questioning-the-decline-of-human-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Questioning the Decline of Human Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/life\/evolution\/did-human-intelligence-peak-thousands-of-years-ago-.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7c\/Head.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Dan Kassem.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Science still struggles to define, measure or understand intelligence, let alone definitively nail down its genetic components. Yet one Stanford geneticist argues that civilization was a bad move, and that human intelligence has gradually ratcheted down \u00a0since leaving its hunter-gatherer days behind.<\/p>\n<p>Is the Peter Principle killing our intellect, or is Crabtree\u2019s model another unripe hypothesis that received too much media attention? Read on to find out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/life\/evolution\/did-human-intelligence-peak-thousands-of-years-ago-.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Did human intelligence peak thousands of years ago?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science still struggles to define, measure or understand intelligence, let alone definitively nail down its genetic components. Yet one Stanford geneticist argues that civilization was a bad move, and that human intelligence has gradually ratcheted down \u00a0since leaving its hunter-gatherer days behind. Is the Peter Principle killing our intellect, or is Crabtree\u2019s model another unripe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=629\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Questioning the Decline of Human Intelligence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,63,84,4,475,415,3],"tags":[590,24,593,594,595,591,589,592],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-culture","category-genetics","category-history","category-neuroscience-science","category-psychology","category-science","tag-allele","tag-behavior","tag-intelligence","tag-iq","tag-mullers-ratchet","tag-mutation","tag-peter-principle","tag-xlid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}