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Comment author: private_messaging 15 September 2014 04:18:23PM *  2 points [-]

Yeah, that's precisely my point. If there's more obstacles, intelligence has to go further before the technological civilization. We did get higher intelligence but only by other means (e.g. having paper and pencil helps, better nutrition gives higher IQ, and so on).