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This is not on the scale of evolution but about mental tools and training, limited to ones lifetime. For example, did ancient egyptians know the concept of "zero"? And there are plenty of examples of neglected children (especially in china because one-child policy) being dumber on the verge to being disabled โ because they lacked stimmulation, mental training.
Yes, IQ is limited as measurement, still an indicator.
Kim peek was likely a Savant, different issue.
Why do you have to know the existence of zero to do mental training? What does mental training have to do with numbers? I am betting that indigenous Amazonian I brought up, spending all of his life hunting, does constant mental training out of necessity.