Blacknad
Your school days were a little later than mine (-'67), so I suppose things had changed. I was taught nothing about evolution. When I did learn about it though, I didn't find it counter-intuitive.

There's no denying that the brain is breathtakingly complex. It's had a while to evolve though, and we see even bigger brains in other mammals. Perhaps they are less complex, I don't know.

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler