(June 17, 2014 at 3:34 am)ignoramus Wrote: Why does our species of primate have the potential for intelligence when other apes with equally big brains do not.
In all these last few hundreds of thousands of years, not one ape decided to grab a piece of branch, find a rock and tie the rock to the stick with a bit of reed or something? And then proceed to bash fuck out of any intruder trying to take over his territory? I would've thought that progress in primates at least was a part of evolution...
Consider the timescale that evolution takes place on. Consider also that apes do use tools, sometimes. Finally, consider the possibility that you're living in the era before intelligence advances in other primate species, and not in the era where we should be seeing that. Just because something isn't happening right this second, oh my god, doesn't mean it can't ever happen, won't happen, or is not happening at a pace undetectable to the human lifespan.
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