Did Extinction Make Human Intelligence Possible? | Mass Extinction, Evolution & Human Survival

Podcast: Divergent Files · Divergent Files

Opublikowano: 2026-08-25

What if human intelligence wasn’t evolution’s inevitable destination—but an adaptation to a planet that kept changing the rules? We explore mass extinctions, Snowball Earth, dinosaurs, environmental instability, and the rise of human flexibility and culture to ask a provocative question: did catastrophe help create the conditions that made human intelligence valuable?