'Long-term planning, long-distance exploration, large social networks, symbolic representation, and innovative technology were already in place' by 300,000 years ago. (Two generations ago, scientists thought these arose only about 50,000 years ago.)https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/a-deeper-origin-of-complex-human-cultures/555674/?utm_source=twb …
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Randomish question. Do you think we were as smart back then as we are now? But just happened to be a different place of evolution? Like, how frustrating would it be to be capable of understand space flight but still using sticks and stones to kill whomprats.
I think we're probably at least 1 SD higher in IQ than 300k years ago, and the spread is probably larger due to assortative mating. But, it's very hard to know.
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