We didn't get our intellect from our farming ancestors 10,000 years ago - but our hunter gatherer ancestors 100,000 years ago. For them, daily survival required

We didn't get our intellect from our farming ancestors 10,000 years ago - but our hunter gatherer ancestors 100,000 years ago. For them, daily survival required a high level of intelligence. In Sapiens, Harari argues that the neolithic agricultural revolution (~12,000 BCE) which caused people to settle down into villages made death by disease more common than it had been for our hunter gatherer ancestors. That said am also doubtful that we've got significantly dumber since the advent of television.