There's a million minutia that we could get into here and of which there are some differences but I want to kind of stay at the high level topology. The key distinction is that the adaptive advantage that every other animal has is the result of genetics, not evolutionary process. A chimpanzee will use a sharp rock to cut something it'll experiment with the rocks around to see which one experientially cuts faster than another. We started being able to increase our adaptive capacity through abstraction through tool making and through abstract coordination mechanisms people start to get intoYeah but animals make tools you can see even crows will use tools to break things open and chimpanzees will use tools and the beaver will

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