What are the Evolutionary explanations for Dumb people?

[the_bob_delusion]

Why are there so many idiotic people around? What evolutionary advantage do they bring out?

e.g.

http://www.news.com.au/national/christien-sechrist-tattooed-his-young-sons-portrait-on-his-own-face/...

[joz*garage]

OK if you want to include this, it's not just our current situation where they are nurtured, our ancestors took care of their mentally challenged as well

[davewil1964]

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@joz*garage wrote:

OK if you want to include this, it's not just our current situation where they are nurtured, our ancestors took care of their mentally challenged as well

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Yes they did. Normally by leaving them exposed on a hill in the middle of winter. They certainly didn't have social mores that allowed them to breed.

If you want to know facts about evolution, I can point you to relevant sources. Like 'The Origin of Species'

[joz*garage]

So you agree now, changed your mind hey?! LOL 

Why be so condescending?

I was being perfectly on topic as well

Normally by leaving them exposed on a hill in the middle of winter. They certainly didn't have social mores that allowed them to breed.

Methinks you better re-read your own history

[davewil1964]

I don't agree.

And if I'm being condescending it's because the information is readily available to people who aren't dumb. Which you claim not to be.

If you want a treatise on evolution (the subject of this thread), I am more than happy to cite chapter, verse and peer-reviewed theory. As it's science, it can never be better than theory, sorry. Even when unable to be refuted it's still theory. Like Einstein's Theories of relativity. The nuclear bomb wouldn't be possible if they weren't true, but they're still theory. Apparently.

Or Newton's 'laws'. Just theory.

[the_bob_delusion]

Haha, I was thinking when I saw the topic, what a profound question. Some creative poster must've come up with this. 

I dont' even remember posting this. Seems like I was smarter back then. I must've dumbed down. Yet I feel like I know more now. Must be the Dunning Kruger effect at work. 

[joz*garage]

Evolvution has made us more so not to run on instinct

And if that is realised this topic is just blah blah blah

There were always and there will always be "dumb" people as you put it

[joz*garage]

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@davewil1964 wrote:

I don't agree.

And if I'm being condescending it's because the information is readily available to people who aren't dumb. Which you claim not to be.

If you want a treatise on evolution (the subject of this thread), I am more than happy to cite chapter, verse and peer-reviewed theory. As it's science, it can never be better than theory, sorry. Even when unable to be refuted it's still theory. Like Einstein's Theories of relativity. The nuclear bomb wouldn't be possible if they weren't true, but they're still theory. Apparently.

Or Newton's 'laws'. Just theory.

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Yeah?!

Shows us where you claim:-

Normally by leaving them exposed on a hill in the middle of winter. They certainly didn't have social mores that allowed them to breed.

[joz*garage]

What a boring place it would be if everyone thought they were smartarrses LOL

[cezm]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Icyfroth wrote: I'm sure Sharks and Dolphins have their own kind of animal intelligence, but they do not have the human conciousness of thought. So why try to think like them? They are each predators!

A comment which leads me to suspect that lateral thinking is a product of intelligence, not eductaion.

Icyfroth wrote:Intelligence will out. Many successful people of our time have been poorly educated, yet made their mark on society. See Greta Thunberg. 

What makes you think Greta Thunberg is poorly educated? 

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Greta Thunberg missed a lot of her schooling to pursue her climate change activism.

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Not a bad effort - 14 As and 3 Bs - and one year off

https://www.romper.com/p/is-greta-thunberg-homeschooled-the-climate-activist-is-on-sabbatical-187970...

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greta-thunberg-returns-school-sweden-year-off-7259059...

[icyfroth]

She took more than a year off. Before the activists snapped her up and used her as their figurehead, she would skip school for days to stand on the bridge witb her placards.