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RE: The Human Brain. Part One: Evolution
What are your thoughts on the 'stoned ape' theory? The idea that one thing that lead to the rapid development of our cognitive capabilities was the introduction of psychedelic mushrooms to our savanna migrating ancestors?
Mind-expanding mushrooms:). First time I heard about that theory, just read the Wikipedia page about it. The question of how our brains evolved to where they are today is definitely not settled, the four different theories I discussed all have some problems with them. So there is definitely room for other explanations. From what I read, there isn't much real evidence for his theory. I am a believer in science to provide the answers for these types of questions, so to be really convincing there would need to be some testing to show that some of his hypotheses hold true.