Teenager's brains are shrinking?

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Today I just happened to notice a political/news magazine that ALWAYS has something depressing on its front cover screaming out that teenager's brains are shrinking.

So there you have it, ladies and gentleman, the generation that will supposedly take care of us when we're old and weak will probably be dragging their knuckles along the ground by then. Although I think I once heard that Neanderthals had bigger brains than modern humans...

What political news magazine was this?

Link please...

Neanderthal did have larger brains than we did. Also, our species brain size has been decreasing for the past 5000 years. Remember brain size is not indicative of intelligence or capability unless the difference in size and morphology are great. It is thought our brain size has reduced because of two factors: 1) We are using significantly less hand-eye coordination and spatial regions and more of our cognitive and memory regions and, 2) Our food supply has greatly increased and stabilized which means we no longer require large brain mass to acquire food (it has to do with #1) so it is more energy efficient to downsize.

We are however required to remember more as the level of information in education has increased.

Yeah, and I see something every so often about how our leaders are evil reptiles.*

Just because someone writes something down, it doesn't make it true.





*Note for fellow Australians: just because it's true for Mr Abbott does not mean it's true for all of them

Last edited by Who_Am_I on 16 Jan 2015, 6:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.: insult Tony Abbott

I'd be satisfied with most...

Still no link to the article.

People have been saying this since the beginning of humanity (this next generation is doomed they won't know how to hunt without pointed sticks! back in our day we would outrun deer and strangle them with our BARE HANDS) the next generation won't be a terrible generation, just different from the last one

However there will be a lack of social services for elderly in the future because people aren't having enough babies anymore to make up for the huge retiring population

I think it was Maclean's. It's a popular magazine in Canada, and my grandparents read it. I'm fairly certain I saw an article in it about teenager's brains shrinking as well. Hopefully natural selection will take care of the really stupid ones...