Human beings ‘more gullible than ever’

HUMANS are more gullible today than ever before in their history and struggle to differentiate between truth and lies, a new book claims.

Evolution has robbed mankind of its intuition and left it largely unable to spot fact from fiction, Dr Stephen Simpson, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, said.

Prior to the emergence of speech anatomically modern Homo sapiens relied on body language and‘ gut feeling’ for survival. understanding facial expressions, mannerisms and physical responses, and trusting an instinctive ‘hunch’, was essential.

But as speech evolved and as physical threats diminished over subsequent millennia, our reliance on non-verbal communication started to wane.

Today humans have become almost entirely dependent on the spoken and written word.

Dr Simpson said: “Modern day man can no longer rely on its innate intuition.”