"Intelligence doesn't evolve. It's embedded in the womb, and will learn to its capacity." That truism puts evolution down the toilet.
This is what's called "presuming your conclusion." That's not a "truism." It's a
claim. Intelligence is an extremely broad term (sufficiently so that in its colloquial use it's nearly meaningless), and even allowing for the wide variety of meanings it can selectively convey, intelligence varies widely within species, let alone between them.
For Christ Jesus' sake we are 99.8% Neanderthal genome! How the hell did that happen? Any ideas......?
It's rather obvious: we share a relatively recent common ancestor, and our ancestors may have interbred with Neanderthals as well.
After all, we're genetically nearly identical to
chimpanzees. A strong genetic similarity to
other hominids like Neanderthals is more than simply obvious, it's
expected. It's a core prediction of evolutionary theory as it pertains to human evolution, one that has been validated by the very genetic evidence you find to be so shocking.
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