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11/28/2007: "Humans evolving to weaker, smaller state"

A "thing that should probably worry people is that brains have been getting smaller for 20,000 to 30,000 years," said Cochran. But brain size and intelligence aren't tightly linked, he added.

In the June 2003 issue of the research journal Current Anthropology, Helen Leach of the University of Otago, New Zealand wrote that skeletons from some populations in the human lineage have undergone a progressive shrinkage and weakening, and reduction in tooth size, similar to changes seen in domesticated animals. Humans seem to have domesticated themselves, she argued, causing physical as well as mental changes.

[ Domesticated, smaller brains... sounds like Progress! ]

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/070326_evolution.htm