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by tjs8rj 254 days ago
Is an individual human raised alone significantly smarter than a chimp?

How much of the intelligence gap is culture and communication that lets us educate ourselves and compound knowledge vs biology? Homo lived for thousands and thousands of years with the same level of development as other apes

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Since it is impossible to instill human culture into a chimp (and scientists certainly have tried) there must be some important biological differences between people and chimps.