Idiocracy? Icelandic Study Shows Education Genes Under Negative Selection in Society
If educated people delay having children and have fewer of them, while the uneducated procreate at prodigious rates, does the population get dumber? An analysis in Iceland shows that genes linked to higher levels of education are under a negative selection pressure in the country’s population – giving evidence to the concept behind the celebrated 2006 movie Idiocracy.
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