Why are we smart, i mean smarter then other animals or living creatures?
In: Biology
The current scientific consensus leans towards something called the “Machiavellian ape hypothesis”.
Basically, something happened a few million years ago, where pre-human competition started getting really nasty, and the males started outcompeting each other through clever plots and schemes. At which point, the proto-humans who were better at plotting and scheming, and better at seeing through the plots and schemes of the other proto-humans, survived to have more successful children than the ones who were just happy to be monkee. Once that pattern started, becoming the smartest proto-human (and having more kids) just means that your level of vicious genius becomes the baseline for the next generation, so anyone who wants to win has to be *even smarter*. And we’re off to the races.
Tldr: at some point a few million years ago, shit went all Game of Thrones.
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