This suggests that intelligence is an externality, like pollution. Something that benefits the individual at a cost to society.
It sounds like nonsense to me. Chimps don’t have much of a society: society is bigger and better as a result of intelligence. Not that intelligence is the only difference—but still.
It sounds like nonsense to me. Chimps don’t have much of a society: society is bigger and better as a result of intelligence. Not that intelligence is the only difference—but still.