I came across an article that pinpointed a mutation back in our ancestory that allowed our intelligence to grow as it has. It was the same type that causes schizophrenia and such when too many of the mutations are passed onto the offspring. It's okay to have one or two of the genes, but 3 resulted in mental illness.
This is just going off of memory, so will have to google to check my facts...will try to see if I have time now.
This mutation may be used to breed monkeys...I'm just assuming, but why would you want to? Imagine having your brain, and thus yourself, stuck in an ape body. It would be maddenly frustrating.
Afterall, we were walking upright before we started getting so intelligent.
Here we go,
upright walking, speech and consciousness is due to an explosion in the profusion and richness of the fat-rich connections between the nerve cells of the brain. This crucial development not merely produced brains of enormously enhanced power, it made us human. But, insists Horrobin, it also gave mankind the condition that we know as schizophrenia.
Found Here
It's a citation, and doesn't include what Horrobin was saying about the prevalence of the mutated genes (how many you have to get schizophrenia rather than just the intelligence/creativity). Would explain the prevalance of schizophrenia in families though, especially families like Einstein's (his son had schizophrenia).
The book review says Horrobin falls short in his explanations. I can see where. I'm still trying to find the proof that x amount of y genes gets schizophrenia, and x- 1 or 2 of y genes results in intelligence without the schizophrenia.
Am I chasing after something that isn't quite there yet? I could have sworn I read it before. Ah well.
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