Psychedelic Experience May Not Be Required For Psilocybin's Antidepressant-Like Benefits - EurekaAlert

Oh boy. Who wouldn't love tripping on shrooms without the visuals? After all, non-alcoholic beer is the best thing since Jeremy Corbell UFO "documentaries". If you couldn't guess, this editor is being sarcastic. Yet the University of Maryland's School of Medicine is particularly earnest about their latest findings, explaining how they don't understand the mechanisms of psilocybin, but to truly appreciate them one should try it for themselves like shamans of old. In other news, Andrew Collins has his own big ideas about the origins of humanity and our cousins which are a far cry from Terrence McKenna's "stoned ape" hypothesis. Did Autism Make the Denisovans Savants of the Prehistoric Age? A recent survey of Denisovan DNA shows they bore the genetic precursors for autism which merits the question. And if they were autistic, it'd explain why they died out since they couldn't score chicks like modern autists. Snark aside, autism and similar conditions are far from being mistakes and may kickstart the next stage of humanity's evolution if science lets nature run its course. Doubtful? You won't feel that way after hearing out Zaria Gorvett's enumeration of The Genetic Mistakes That Could Shape Our Species thanks to the latest technologies. It'll make you wonder what exactly lay in store for humanity, and hopefully it's not this. (CS)

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