@Oneironott I don't know how well it's aged, but you might enjoy Kurt Vonnegut's novel Galapagos. Its central thesis is that human evolution to sapience was a REAL BAD IDEA and we'd all be better off "devolving" back into ottery things with better, less violent and forebrain-heavy, priorities...
@zebratron2084 this is my fetish also
Seriously hah
I’ll definitely check it out