Why are we smart, i mean smarter then other animals or living creatures?
In: Biology
Are we smarter? We’re definitely better at making and using tools, but we’re killing our habitat and animal neighbors with full knowledge, rapidly. We’re having more and more breakthroughs in animal intelligence each year, finding that animals have more capability than we thought each time. Our wisdom as humans is highly overrated, but we do have the greatest intellectual capacity known, sure.
Why are we better at accumulating and applying knowledge? Consider that we are evolved from persistence hunters, which caused us to need to be able to track and follow prey over long distances while working together as a group. We became upright and suddenly had access to so much more information from our eyes. We developed the ability to record and preserve lessons learned, so we could survive more easily. The mind is not dying with the body any longer, but persists in a way beyond generations through storytelling, religion, philosophy, and technology.
Bigger brains, more brains together, better vision, immortal ideas, technology and lots and lots of competition.
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