Evolution of human intelligence | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 13/01/2019

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00:00:50 1 History
00:00:59 1.1 Hominidae
00:01:38 1.2 Homininae
00:04:38 1.3 iHomo/i
00:07:00 1.4 iHomo sapiens/i
00:08:00 1.4.1 Homo sapiens intelligence
00:10:39 2 Models
00:10:47 2.1 Social brain hypothesis
00:12:46 2.1.1 Criticism
00:14:22 2.2 Reduction in aggression
00:17:21 2.3 Social exchange theory
00:20:19 2.4 Sexual selection
00:24:10 2.4.1 Critique
00:26:01 2.5 Intelligence as a disease-resistance sign
00:28:07 2.6 Ecological dominance-social competition model
00:29:35 2.7 Intelligence dependent on brain size
00:30:54 2.8 Group selection
00:31:32 2.9 Nutritional status
00:32:50 3 See also



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The evolution of human intelligence is closely tied to the evolution of the human brain and to the origin of language.  The timeline of human evolution spans approximately 7 million years, from the separation of the genus Pan until the emergence of behavioral modernity by 50,000 years ago. The first 3 million years of this timeline concern Sahelanthropus, the following 2 million concern Australopithecus and the final 2 million span the history of the genus Homo in the Paleolithic era.
Many traits of human intelligence, such as empathy, theory of mind, mourning, ritual, and the use of symbols and tools, are apparent in great apes although in less sophisticated forms than found in humans, such as great ape language.