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Where Did Human Intelligence Come From?

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The Cavemen Are Tripping on Mushrooms, Right?

As things change in our environment, we figure out new ways to solve those. And then those solutions are inevitably going to create other problems or changes. So then we have to evolve even further intelligence to figure out how to solve these new problems. You can actually see it still going on today, Chuck. Like we've evolved a level of intelligence where we can extract petroleum from the earth.

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