Instincts
intelligence and WHAT IS NATURAL TO HUMANS
Humans were originally hunter-gatherers who lived in nature and moved in groups of maybe 50-100 persons and met every now and then other groups of humans.
It is said that only 50 000 years ago humans started to use fire continually.
There is a clear instinct reaction to fire.
So probably it takes only some 2000 generations or less to form such an instinct.
Humans have lived in towns - here in Finland about 200 years (some more some not at all) and in the oldest cultures some 2000 years maybe, that is some 80 generations. That is an insufficient time to form new instincts. The town environment DOESN'T GIVE THE SAME KIND OF STIMULI on sensory and other levels as rural and nature environments. So the adaptation of old instincts and ways of functioning to town life is maybe not possible. The nature landscapes are much more complex views than the city environment, so it may be that people do not develop into as intelligent as they could in more natural environment.
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