[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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Because as far as we know there are no other animals with our level of intelligence.

Even other apes, which are very closely related to us, are no better than young children when it comes to intelligence. You don’t get a lot of average intelligence children building rockets that fly to the Moon.

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