What prevents other animals/species from evolving and developing cognitively the same way humans have?
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There was a similar question asked here yesterday, actually.
The simple answer is that they don’t need to.
Evolution has no end-game. It’s not trying to evolve towards some goal or ideal final form. Being smart isn’t the point, surviving well enough to produce large numbers of offspring is and there are a lot of ways nature lets something do that.
Put another way, if evolution had any point produced particularly intelligent bears or piranhas that cleverness didn’t help them outcompete everyone else for resources the way it did us. There is no rule that says swimming really well or having powerful and fast jaws can’t also grant success.
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