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Is there any indication of increased intellegence over time within the Human species?

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jar
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08-05-2005 12:32 PM

There was another thread, Message 1 that started out on Bones of Contention but where the issue of intellegence came up. I believe that the question is interesting enough for it's own thread.
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First, I'm not sure there is a good definition of intellegence so as a working assumption I would describe intellegence as the capability to imagine a new way of performing a task.
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In this thread I'd like to ask several questions.
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  1. is there some minimal brain size needed?
  2. are there certain brain areas needed?
  3. is there a method of measuring intellegence based simply on brain size?
  4. is there any evidence to show that intellegence has increased over time?
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08-08-2005 11:07 PM

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08-08-2005 11:19 PM

Thread copied to the Is there any indication of increased intellegence over time within the Human species? thread in the Human Origins forum, this copy of the thread has been closed.
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