Max Bennett’s  A Brief History of Intelligence  explains how intelligence evolved through five breakthroughs, and why today’s AI may be repeating that same journey in digital form.   Introduction: Intelligence as an Evolutionary Story Max Bennett’s  A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains  is not just a book about brains. It is a theory of how intelligence itself emerged, layer by layer, over hundreds of millions of years. Bennett argues that intelligence is not one invention but a sequence of five major breakthroughs. Each one solved a different problem, and each one became the foundation for the next. That framework matters today because AI is advancing in a similarly layered way. Bloomberg Intelligence has projected that generative AI could become a $1.3 trillion market by 2032, showing that this is not only a scientific story but an economic one as well. Breakthrough One...