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The Doped Monkey Theory: Magical Mushrooms Made Us Human?

What if it all started with a trip... but psychedelic? The famous doped monkey theory proposes that the consumption of psychoactive fungi could boost the evolution of human consciousness. Yes, as you hear it: our ancestors could have developed language, creativity and empathy thanks to the effects of psilocybin. Ethnobotanic Terence McKenna launched this idea in 1992, in his book The Food of the Gods. According to him, monkeys followed herds of …
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What if it all started with a trip... but psychedelic? The famous doped monkey theory proposes that the consumption of psychoactive fungi could boost the evolution of human consciousness. Yes, as you hear it: our ancestors could have developed language, creativity and empathy thanks to the effects of psilocybin. Ethnobotanic Terence McKenna launched this idea in 1992, in his book The Food of the Gods. According to him, monkeys followed herds of …

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