I've got a bit of a busy morning ahead, so just a brief post for now.
In a study reported in this morning's Star, geneticist Dr. Gerald Crabtree offers his view
... that human intelligence peaked at the time of hunter-gatherers and has since declined as a result of “genetic mutations” that have slowly eroded the human brain’s intellectual and emotional abilities.
Judging by who the electorate has been putting at the helm in Ottawa since 2006, I find the good doctor's thesis difficult to dispute.