What makes man so unique?
How, alone among all the primates, could he give birth to knowledge, tools, ideas transmitted over the centuries?
"Six million years separate humans from other species of great apes
," notes Michael Tomasello, cognitive psychologist and professor at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina).
From an evolutionary point of view, this is a very short period.
(…) It is clear that not enough
(time) has elapsed
for the normal processes of biological evolution, which combine genetic variation and natural selection, to have created, one by one, each of the skills cognitive skills needed by
humans
to invent and perpetuate industrial tools and sophisticated technologies, very elaborate forms of communication and symbolic representation, but also social organizations and complex institutions.
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