What caused humans to become the top species on earth, and why is there such an intellectual gap between humans and all other species?
In: Earth Science
We’re not the top species, that’s the same illusion that makes religious people think god created humans specially to be different to other animals. Bacteria are doing great too and I bet they’ll outlast humans by a loooooong stretch. Evolution doesn’t do “top species”.
We have language, and I think that lets us do group intelligence… and allowed us to invent writing, which allows us to have ideas that take international groups of people many human lifetimes to develop.
A lot of the technology that helps us *appear to* dominate the planet is only possible because we work together in huge groups, building on ideas developed over 100s of years.
We’re impressive… to ourselves… but I think we’d be way less impressive if we suddenly forgot to speak languages, read and write.
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