[ClearCase_guy]

Sounds like someone ate of the Tree of Knowledge.

[ClearCase_guy]

protein implicated in the anticipation and experience of pain

To the woman he said: "I will intensify the pangs of your childbearing; in pain shall you bring forth children.

social attachment and bonding,

Yet your urge shall be for your husband, and he shall be your master."

as well as learning and memory.

Then the LORD God said: "See! The man has become like one of us, knowing what is good and what is bad!

[Junior]

That's "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil."

[aNYCguy]

Sounds like someone ate of the Tree of Knowledge.

I assume you're mistakenly referring to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Or are you actually quote-mining the bible?

As to your suggestion that the first two humans ate a magic fruit which altered their DNA and caused their outrageously incestuous descendents to inherit their increased cognitive powers: When would you say this happened? The article is not suggesting that this cognitive divergence happened, say, 6,000 years ago.