Lmao
Just among so many other things, like the lead poisoned baby food from March this year, you clown, the FDA was established in 1906, and Republicans are, right now, trying to abolish child labor laws and hiring 12 year olds in meat packing plants.
We have fossil evidence otherwise. Their greatest barrier to developing higher intelligence is that they die after reproduction, so they'll never have pressures to develop more symbolic thought or pass on knowledge.