@ned
smarter & more knowledgeable than we wish to admit
surely today, we are smartest most evolved - we have science!
my thinking began to change when i read that Romans performed cataract surgery 2000 ya
we know people all over world could cut rocks with high precision. & using small portable machines! eg barabar caves in India
i also wonder about medicines & processing of poisonous food so that it can be eaten
what knowledge of plants have we lost & we are left with tradition and process