What prevents other animals/species from evolving and developing cognitively the same way humans have?
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Personally I think the main difference humans how is how ability to predict outcomes. There are plenty of animals that use tools, have complex hunting strategies, and some even have a form of communication. Humans are able to see the things at play and accurately predict what will happen next.
I think we gained this ability through our long distance tracking and hunting method. When we chase a gazelle or something, it runs off and we track it until we scare it again. As ancient humans were pretty much built for long distance running and cooling ourselves off with our unique sweet glands. Bipedal movement was also very efficient for distance travel. Basically we tracked and predicted where animals were and that lead humans to being able to predict a lot of things at the cost of sometimes our assumptions being wrong.
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