[eli5] Why did humans advance so far so fast while other intelligent animals did not?

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[eli5] Why did humans advance so far so fast while other intelligent animals did not?

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We are a unique combination of being biologically adapted to manipulate our environment, evolved to possess adequate intelligence to achieve self-awareness and language, and cultural inheritance through our development of history and communication techniques that allow us to pass on information.

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