Why are humans the only species on earth to become intelligent?
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There are a lot of very glib answers in the thread. Humans’ cognitive experience of “intelligence” seems to be heavily connected to our language. Animals communicate and some have complex systems for it, but as far as we can tell no other species has discovered *reconstructable* language (meaning it can be reassembled independently by individuals to express original ideas.) I don’t actually know that much about this, and I definitely can’t speak to the evolutionary theory of it, but you might want to start there. I wouldn’t normally try to answer with this little expertise but the replies so far are all some form of “Are they though?” which isn’t an answer to your question even if it is a decent point. Animal intelligence is callously ignored and denied, but humans do have unique cognitive abilities that correlate to our (unsustainable and ill-advised) “dominance” over the planet.
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