Question #2

"Is ADD a neurological evolution?"
- Penny

As a person with an extremely short attention span I can tell you three things. 1.) a short attention span is definitly indicative of a more advanced organism [that will one day conquer Earth] and 2.) Kenny Barron is a great jazz musician.

Okay, I'll be serious for once. I don't think that the increasing number diagnoses of ADD and ADHD over the years is due to evolution in its truest sense. Evolution involves a change in genetic composition, thus a change in behavior is not necessarily evolution unless it causes speciation (basically those exhibiting the new behavior no longer mate with those exhibiting the original behavior). My guess would be that the wide spectrum of this flux in human thought processes is directly related to our environment. The emergence of indecision, finiky behavior, and inability to focus should be expected with the increasing complexity of our lifestyles. People are simply becoming overstimulated by the variety of choices we have. The levels of "ADD" we are currently observing among the population may have always been present, but only now does it reveal itself as new factors have been introduced.

And to make matters worse, many states in the U.S. don't even allow kids to play dodgeball in school anymore. I don't care what other people say, I think it's friendly game.