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It is believed that animals much like modern humans first appeared about 2.5 million years ago. About 70,000 years ago, the cognitive revolution occurred in a species called Homo sapiens in Africa. The brain structure of sapiens achieved a threshold of sophistication and capacity such that ideas, knowledge and culture were formed. Consequently, biology gave rise to history.
The brain is a three-pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe a hundred billion light years across. — Marian Diamond The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. — JamesWatson
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Yu, F.R., Yu, A.W. (2023). Intelligence in Humans. In: A Brief History of Intelligence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15951-0_6
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