every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes

@Daojoan It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the hunter-gatherers from before the Neolithic revolution were way smarter than the average person nowadays tbh.

Afaik there's some evidence that brain sizes have shrunk since people started settling down in cities etc.

@Tijn @Daojoan even with better nutrition and fewer infections? (Well, fewer parasitic infections. More viral infections.)