Food of the Gods

"Our proposed story of human emergence into the light of self-reflection is a you-are-what-you-eat story" 16

"Each encounter with a new food, drug, or flavoring was fraught with risk and unpredictable consequences." 16

"My contention is that mutation-causing, psychoactive chemical combounds in the early human diet directly influenced the rapid reorganization of the brain's information-processing capacities" 24

"The actions of hallucinogens present in many common plants enhanced our information processing activity, or evniromental sensivity, and thus contributed to a sudden expansion of human brain size" 24