Unlike the intellectual abilities that had emerged in the breakthroughs prior, theory of mind was not born from the need to survive the dangers of hungry predators or inaccessible prey, but instead from the subtler and far more cutting dangers of politics. Politics was the origin story of Breakthrough #4, but it is far from the entire story. As we will see in the next two chapters, theory of mind in early primates was repurposed for two other new abilities.
