As confident as this guy sounds and as well-presented as he seems, what he is affirming has a lot of gaps.
Human intelligence accelerated when we started cooking our food. Our brain is power-hungry and consumes up to 25% of our body's energy despite only being 3% of our body mass. Cooking enabled us to extract more calories from our food and the process of cooking led us to socialize more among ourselves, and develop complex languages which led to groups, clans, tribes, and ultimately civilizations.
Dolphins and Whales have side-facing eyes, no thumbs and a complex language with culture.
That does not answer why humans became intelligent. Only effect, not cause.
How intelligent is a species that destroys their only habitat?
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