So, forget everything about evolution, social darwinism, human consciousness, cultural development and monkeys. It's all irrelevant. Even recent history is impossible to truly know. By the time anything like "history" gets to you, it's already been refracted through the distorting lens of the perceptions of whoever started the story in the first place, the distortions of time and language that must inevitably take their toll on all things venerable, the societal and personal preconceptions of the historian... And God only knows what happens to it when it crosses the boudaries of your eyes. Science has nothing at all to say about almost everything that has been written on the subject of where humanity, in all its modern glory, came from. Noone knows and the chances are very very good that no one will ever know for sure. It's easy enough for an author to create a plausible account that shows preliterate humans learning language, society and religion from gobbling up psilocybin mushrooms... But it's just as easy to make the case that humans learned to use language so that they could finally make it completely clear what a pain in the ass everyone else was. So just try to put it out of your head.
klik if you demand tedious explanations of every little thing.
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