"It can’t have been strong because otherwise we’d all be Von Neumanns." But the type of intelligence that secures safety and access to reproductive opportuniti

"It can’t have been strong because otherwise we’d all be Von Neumanns." But the type of intelligence that secures safety and access to reproductive opportunities is the sort which wages war and waits for the right time to backstab and/or do away with one's rivals. With agriculture you get the monopolization of surplus resources which greatly increases the rewards for autocratic and oligarchic formations.