I misread the title and I thought it was about humans.

And I could see it. With prevalence of screens kids already don't learn a lot of dexterity that previous generations have learned. Their grip strength is weak and capacity for fine 3d motions is probably underdeveloped as well.

Last week I've seen an intelligent and normally developing 7 year old kid asking mum to operate a small screwdriver to get to the battery compartment of a toy because that apparently was beyond his competence.

Now with recent developments in robotics, fully neural controllers and training in simulated environments there could be that modern babies will have very little tasks requiring dexterity left when they grow up.

> because that apparently was beyond his competence.

This has almost nothing to do with nature (barring a development issue).

This has to do with nurture. Every time they went to do something with a tool a helicopter gunship of a parent showed up to tell them no. Now they have a learned helplessness when it comes to these things.

But that's not really any different then when I was a kid so very long ago. At 4 or 5 I was given a stack of old broken radios and took them to the garage for a rip and tear session. I got to look at all their pretty electronic guts that fascinated me. There were plenty of other parents of that time that would have been horrified to see their kids do something similar.