Human intelligence is a regular epoch in world history, not a freak accident

Evidence

The human race is not, as has sometimes been asserted, a chance phenomenon of natural history, a freak due to hypertrophy of the brain. This is only true of reason in certain individuals and perhaps for short periods of history—even for certain countries in which the economy allowed these individuals freedom of action. The brain or human intelligence is strong enough to form a regular epoch in the history of the world. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 199

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Humans were evolutionarily selected for learnability, not behavioral fixedness
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Humans were evolutionarily selected for learnability, not behavioral fixedness

Broader Connections

• Humans were evolutionarily selected for learnability, not behavioral fixedness #corroborates (0.78)