THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE IN HUMAN EVOLUTION
One of the most complex, controversial and ambiguous issues, solution of which is occupied modern cognitive science - the emergence and development of unusual and unparalleled in the natural phenomena of intelligence in Homo Sapiens. According to many contemporary philosophers, anthropologists and psycholinguists, intelligence, and language became the most important phenomena leading human to prosperity and have contributed to an unusually rapid development of human communities, significantly advancing the development of other species. The intellect became the factor that allowed expansive to take the most liveable places on the planet, and even to go beyond it. Developed abstract thinking gave one species of mammals advantages that earlier in evolution do not arise in General, no single representative of the living world. This article attempts to analyze some current views on the evolutionary origins of intellect in humans.