Ok first the good news. Yes, it will happen. Now the less so immediately good (but not bad) news: it takes a while.

It’s a strange thing that our species is called homo sapiens sapiens.

If sapiens means thinking, and sapiens sapiens therefore means “really fricking thinking”, why does this define us as a species?

All animals have brains, so thought is not specific to we super monkeys. There seem to be a lot of other species that think as much if not more effectively than we do – because our thoughts are often our own worst enemies.

So, what is it that really sets we humans apart?

It’s the voice box, the larynx. It’s speech. We are the speaking ape.

When we first stumbled into Rowan’s love of my neighbor's mare Betsy, which led to him becoming verbal in the saddle, and which in turn led to us realizing that it was the rhythmic hip rocking causing him to produce oxytocin that was creating the speech, which led to Horse Boy Method and Movement Method…we were also working with a whole bunch of small animals, not just horses.

Want to up your IQ. Right now, right here? Get you some BDNF my friends: Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor – nature’s ‘miracle-gro’ for the brain.