What prevents other animals/species from evolving and developing cognitively the same way humans have?
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Don’t think of evolution as a movement towards something. Nothing is ‘trying’ to evolve, nothing is ‘preventing’ evolution. It’s just a question of what’s happened and what hasn’t happened. Nothing is ‘preventing’ housecats from developing higher intelligence, it just happens that there hasn’t been a significant mutation resulting in increased intelligence in cats that has caused that line of cats to have a better chance of surviving and reproducing than other cats.
Remember, for every advantageous mutation that results in something that can benefit the species, there are oodles and OODLES of disadvantageous mutations that resulted in that genetic line from dying off.
Hell, maybe there was a cat one time that had a mutation that made it super smart (for a cat). But if that mutation also resulted in it being sterile… well, that’s a no go evolutionary path.
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