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Max S. Bennett's A Brief History of Intelligence is a popular-science examination of how biological intelligence evolved and what that history may reveal about artificial intelligence. Combining evolutionary neuroscience, comparative cognition, and AI research, Bennett organizes a vast timescale into five major cognitive breakthroughs: steering, reinforcement learning, simulation, mentalizing, and speaking. The book is not a conventional history of individual scientists or a technical manual for machine learning. Its purpose is to supply a functional map of intelligence, showing how new brain capacities accumulated on earlier systems and enabled qualitatively new behavior. Bennett uses this evolutionary sequence to address a central contemporary puzzle: why AI can outperform people in constrained tasks such as games or pattern recognition while remaining weak at many flexible, embodied, commonsense tasks. The result is an accessible but ambitious framework that treats the brain's evolutionary past as evidence about both the architecture of the human mind and the likely unsolved problems facing future machines.