
iStockphoto The jury is still out on the merits of the “Stoned Ape Theory” that was floated in Terrence McKenna’s Food of the Gods, where the famed psychonaut posited that the evolution of early humans was heavily influenced by the various hallucinogenic plants they stumbled across while foraging for sustenance—most notably the psilocybin-based fungi commonly referred to as “magic mushrooms.