We will find out who has true intelligence after the next Carrington type event.  Who will have the ingenuity to survive, adapt and thrive without everything we take for granted today.  Hunting and gathering food, building without electricity, protecting what is yours from predators who don't have your intelligence.  I'm quite looking forward to it.,(reply>), Not really. The san are still hunter gatherers and herders perfectly adapted to survive with zero modern technology and absolutely no drive to develop anything or improve anything. They have average iqs 1 to 2 standard deviations below average and yet are the most likely to survive any great extinction events both in terms of location and in terms of survival skills.