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Some people believe that thought constructs that can be transfered between people and societies are the triggers that engender massive changes in our inner and outer landscapes. One of these "memes" is abstract thought. The major traceable changes are currently tied with cultural discoveries. The 50,000 year old surreal carvings in mammoth ivory discovered a little while ago in Germany are at about the furthest back we've found actual evidence of the workings of the mind as opposed to the intelligent animal (fire and worked stone go back to proto-human races long extinct, I believe). The cultural evidence coincides with a dramatic upswing in territory inhabited, artifacts (including petroglyphs and paintings) and sophisticated tools (such as stone that would require a 2 stage working to aquire it's functionality. Humans have been very very busy - we just don't have the softer evidences of their lives due to the effects of time. But I am sure as sure can be that there have been many amazing, complex and sophisticated accomplishments that validated the people of those lost eons just as our science and our cultural noise is the touchstone that many people use to validate the race in the last 5-10 thousand years.
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And now to disengage the clutch of the forebrain ... 
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