(February 19, 2016 at 6:14 am)Excited Penguin Wrote:(February 19, 2016 at 5:55 am)ignoramus Wrote: I would imagine it would be the advent of language and more specifically, the written word.
That would act as a catalyst and increase the generational knowledge logarithmically.
The same reasons apes can't advance. Every generation starts from scratch, every time.
There is no passing on of knowledge.
I'm sure that's not true. If apes developed language I'm sure we could help them with a thing or two, lol.
Not to mention we might deliberately increase their intelligence if we learn how to manipulate the brain in that way.
They (the apes) are starting to catch-up:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150818-...-stone-age