Homo Sapiens - The Big Bang of Culture

Chuck Klosterman: 30 to 60,000 years ago, there was that upper paleolithic revolution where humanity just suddenly blossomed into what we recognize today as humanity. It's really tempting to think that human intelligence just was suddenly born all of a sudden, like geologically speaking overnight at that time. But instead, again, it was this part of this very long line of seemingly random and unconnected developments in the history of humanity.