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#211 – Brian Muraresku: The Secret History of Psychedelics
Lex Fridman Podcast
Psychedelics and the Stone Ape Hypothesis
Is it possible that psychedelics were involved in one of the several leaps forward? You mentioned the word leap. Jared Diamond talks about the great leap forward 60,000 years ago. Did something like that happen millions of years ago? It would be the ingestion of perhaps psilocybin containing fungi,. over millions and millions of years. So it's really difficult to test that hypothesis. But I've been talking with a paleoanthropologist in South Africa, my friend Lee Berger, about how we might test for this.
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