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Where Did Human Intelligence Come From?

Stuff You Should Know

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I Love the Plasticity Theory

Theory is that maybe intelligence evolved as a universal adaptation to all kinds of evolutionary pressures. If you can now, all of a sudden, remember where landmarks are and then way find your way back to a starting point, now you can start to use that to follow game further and further afield. It's really interesting. And then wrapped up in this also, there's a better example than following the stupid sunset - I love sunsets.

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