From NPR News…

Anthropologists have come up with a theory about what kicked off a series of “creative explosions” in human ingenuity during the Stone Age – from about 90,000 to 45,000 years ago – and it doesn’t involve some sudden improvement in brain power.

Instead, the flowering of intelligence that brought sophisticated tools, better weapons and art came about because of population density: More people started living in bigger communities.

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