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Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge—A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution

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Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna's 1992 Bantam book and primary published source for his psilocybin-and-human-evolution argument; it establishes what he proposed, not that the evolutionary mechanism occurred.

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McKenna proposed that psilocybin catalyzed human cognition, language, religion, art, and culture; the catalog documents the proposal but does not establish the evolutionary causal chain.

The broad importance of altered states is plausible. McKenna's specific evolutionary chain is unsupported by the level of evidence required.
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