Psilocybin and the magic of mushrooms
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Famous ethnobotanist Terrence McKenna’s influential, and controversial, “stoned ape” hypothesis of human evolution posited it was the addition of hallucinogenic mushrooms to our early ancestors diet as recently as 100,000 years ago that kickstarted our transformation from Homo erectus to Homo sapien.
McKenna suggested the ingestion of magic mushrooms acted as an “evolutionary catalyst,” not only sparking the higher consciousness that led to language, art and religion, but also simply improving visual acuity, which delivered an evolutionary advantage to those mushroom-eating humans and helped them to become better hunters.
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