THE SHRINKING HUMAN BRAIN

Most people don’t know this but the human brain has shrunk dramatically through
the millennia of the history of mankind. Scientists are in some disagreement as to
whether this shrinkage started thirty thousand years ago, or ten thousand years
ago, but they agree that the brain has shrunk by 8-10%. The brain has in fact been
shrinking for the past 100,000 years albeit at a slower rate.

Another conundrum for evolutionary biologists is why the human brain ‘evolved’ to
be so big in the first place! It gobbles up an extraordinary amount of energy. It
only takes up 2% of our body weight, but uses 20-25% of our energy intake - far
more than any other organ. The more the brain grows, the more energy and nutrients
it takes away from other vital organs.
The necessity for such a large brain in evolutionary terms was thrown in doubt by
Professor John Lorber’s study, detailing individuals who somehow managed to
function normally with an IQ over a hundred, with nothing more than a sliver of
brain tissue. One boy had an IQ of 126 and a first class honours degree in
mathematics despite the fact he had "virtually no brain". A CAT scan showed the
boy's skull was lined with a thin layer of brain cells to a millimeter in
thickness. The rest of his skull was filled with cerebrospinal fluid. The young
man continued a normal life with virtually no brain.
From over 600 scans of people with hydrocephalus Lorber documented just under 10%
with 95% of the cranial cavity filled with cerebrospinal fluid. Half of this group
were profoundly retarded. The remaining half had IQs greater than 100. Sceptics
have claimed that it was an error of interpretation of the scans themselves.
Lorber himself admits that reading a CAT scan can be tricky. He also has said
that he would not make such a claim without evidence. In answer to attacks that
he has not precisely measured the amount of brain tissue missing, he added, "I
can't say whether the mathematics student has a brain weighing 50 grams or 150
grams, but it is clear that it is nowhere near the normal 1.5 kilograms."
All this throws up startling questions:
WHY DID THE HUMAN BRAIN GROW TO BE SO UNNECESSARILY LARGE IN TERMS OF OUR
EVOLUTIONARY SURVIVAL AND PROGRESS?
WHY DID THE BRAIN MAINTAIN THIS SIZE FOR SO LONG DESPITE THE FACT THAT IT USED UP
SO MUCH ENERGY?
WHY DID IT SUDDENLY START TO SHRINK 30,000 YEARS AGO? IF THE SIZE OF THE BRAIN IS
A SIGN OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PROGRESS OF AN ORGANISM DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE ARE WE
NOW DEVOLVING? IF A SMALLER BRAIN IS ALL THAT’S NECESSARY IN EVOLUTIONARY TERMS
HOW DID THE BRAIN GET TO BE SO BIG IN THE FIRST PLACE?
I am reminded of a book called ‘The Song Of The Greys’ by Nigel Kerner. In 1998
when the book was published, long before this affirmation about the shrinking
brain size, he made a stunning case for the suggestion that we did not evolve from
a sea-worm. We ‘devolved’ from something much much better than we are now. The
large brain is just a remnant of what we once were, that’s why it’s shrinking.
Kerner also suggests that the 95% of the human genome that does not seem to code
for proteins was also at one time in the ancient past used in full, we have, in
other words, lost 95% of our potential through devolution.
This is not the first time I’ve found confirmations for stuff in this book. Kerner
insists in the book that human lineage includes a Neanderthal input. Research into
mitochondrial DNA claimed to prove that this was impossible. But research
published this year suggests that Neanderthals may well have contributed to the
human gene pool after all. In fact several of Kerner’s suggestions in the book
seem to have come almost prophetically true since the book was written. I read it
last year and the amount of things he mentions that have already happened is
unbelievable.
Kerner’s not a creationist though thank God!! If he were I’d have put the book
down sharpish. He suggests that the difference between us and the animals is
freedom of scope, freedom to know, be aware of and make a vast range of choices
outside the status quo. So, if we are ‘devolving’, we had more freedom of scope in
the past and if you trace that right back to our beginnings , we would have been
perfectly free with no limit. That perfect freedom you could call ‘God’, and
Kerner does. But the refreshing difference is that he says we made our own free
choices to understand what it might be like not to be perfectly free. We chose to
experience the one thing we couldn’t, from the state of perfect freedom – limit.
If ‘God’ is all knowing, says Kerner, then that knowing would kind of have to
include a knowledge of what it’s like not to know all. Sound strange? It won’t if
you read the book and see the full argument. It was just what I was looking for,
as I could never relate to a creator God, but could never figure how our existence
could be explained without one.
So basically, Kerner says that humankind in the past was a less hard wired more
ephemeral sort of being that gradually devolved into a more and more physical type
of being, through the action of the second law of thermodynamics, with time, to a
point where we became a sort of monkey man.
Another angle on this is his radical and extraordinary theory involving the Grey
aliens that feature in reports of alien abduction. He suggests that when we
reached our current devolutionary point we became susceptible to interference by
these entities that come from elsewhere in the universe. These alien biological
robots (he calls ‘roboids’) are, he says, genetically engineering us to serve
their purposes to this day. This interference has modified our present form of
Homo Sapiens Sapiens. Could the creation story of Adam & Eve describe just such a
genetic engineering exercise, he asks. Could the taking of Adam’s rib to make Eve
describe a cloning procedure?
He claims there were many more of these genetic interceptions previous to this.
All of them leading to a point where these alien things harvest some of us for
what he calls our ‘soul fields’. A ‘soul’ is the only eternal mechanism in ‘a
universe of diminishing returns’, as Kerner puts it.
He gives evidence to show that the great religious teachers including Christ came
to warn us of this fact. More disturbingly he claims the UFO phenomenon is in fact
the harbinger of this mal-intent on the part of this alien power and it continues
to this day. A continuity that may well end in the final harvest of those whom he
suggests are the more suitable types of human for an alien purpose: The ‘Euro-
Caucasian’ genotype.
Read this hugely interesting book and you’ll find it explains most of the
conundrums we now face, through scientific discoveries, and actually ties in and
affirms religious belief in a Godhead, in a way that is quite brilliantly logical.
The book was first published in 1998 so it’s out of print, but I searched around
and found that you can still get it from the book’s website
www.songofthegreys.com. I bought this book for every member of my family. I
believe it is the greatest favour I could do them in this world.
Bigger brains than necessary, shrinking brains with time, evolution????? I don’t
think so.