Chimps are more evolved than humans

L Gilbert

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I'd think that our advancement also has something to do with the evolutionary process. We don't need to adapt nearly as much as the less advanced species. Really that's our greatest evolutionary trait. Our bodies don't need to adapt, so long as we can create technology to circumvent any roadblocks. Heck, just look at the way we choose our partners now...
Quite right. In fact, however, humans are adaptable anyway.
 

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This is all wiki has.:cool:


The Naked Ape

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The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal (ISBN 0-385-33430-3) is a book by Desmond Morris which looks at humans as a species and compares them to other animals. It depicts human behavior as partially evolved to meet the challenges of prehistoric life as a hunter-gatherer (see nature versus nurture).
A 1973 movie directed by Donald Driver — based on the book — was made starring Johnny Crawford and Victoria Principal.

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certainly not. But history and records are (almost exclusively). So humans can learn something once and have the whole race remember it for ever. Or until the DVD's delaminate.

I beg to differ on that as well, because of inherited memory not lost in infancy animals enjoy historical records of sorts, commonly called instinct.:smile:
 

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very true. which is why i wrote the words in the parentheses. The difference between historical records you refer to as instinct and human records is that instinct is "one to one", whereas human communications are one-to-many, in fact often one-to-all when the communication is important enough, or deemed so. So with instinct, if all those individuals who hold the knowledge die, or are excommunicated somehow, the knowledge is either lost or confined to one group. With technological histories the knowledge is made, at least in theory, immortal.