- The human species became capable of change and evolution through the Cognitive Revolution, even without changes in their genes.
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This ability is unique to humans and not found in other animals, including primates.
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Effect: This allowed humans to rapidly adapt to new environments and spread across the Earth.
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Effect: It gave rise to the concept of “thought,” allowing individuals to become fascists, communists, or any other ideology after birth.
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Effect: It led to the development of language, enabling large groups of people to cooperate by believing in fictions such as myths and laws.
- This is something that is normally impossible for organisms, with the Dunbar’s number being the limit.
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It’s like being able to change the software without changing the hardware, right?
- It would be interesting to compare the evolution of computers with the evolution of humans.
- Something like a Digital Nature.
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