Human intelligence was born in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, as our ape ancestors evolved increasingly bigger brains.
That may only have happened because of the Sun, Moon, and other planets in our Solar System. Their gravity makes the Earth's orbit change how elliptical it is, over thousands of years. That in turn affects our planet's climate. And looking at the fossil record, our ancestors' increases in brain size happened when the Earth's orbit was at its most elliptical, a time of rapid and violent climate change, when adaptability and intelligence would have been a huge evolutionary advantage.