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Originally Posted by EWright
...our combined knowledge, technology and communication capabilities are a million times more than any other's or perhaps all others combined.
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Not really. Socially, dolphins and chimps are as highly developed as we are, if not more so. Its arguable that dolphins and whales communication sophistication is equivalent to our language too. The only thing we've really done is to use tools, and that's ALL been done in only about 15-20,000 years, which is spit in the ocean in the 10 million odd year history of homonids. Thus its pretty obvious that its not too difficult to evolve, but it does require an opposable thumb and some environmental shocks to get it going....
Cheers,
Buffy
