We stopped chasing food and began controlling it, leading to cities and civilizations.
By mastering fire, we "outsourced" our digestion, allowing more energy to fuel our growing brains.
Creating a "second intelligence" that mirrors our own cognitive processes.
As we reach the culmination of this two-million-year cycle, we are no longer just products of natural selection. We are becoming the architects of our own biology: The ability to edit the code of life itself.
Our cranial capacity tripled, trading raw physical strength for the ability to process complex patterns and abstract thought.
Since Homo habilis first walked the earth, our species has undergone a radical transformation: