timtyler comments on Nature: Red, in Truth and Qualia - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 01 June 2011 05:18:56PM *  1 point [-]

Well, I did say "mostly". Human cultural inheritance and human language are leaps and bounds ahead of chimpanzee abilities in these areas.

In terms of culture, chimpanzees haven't made it as far as their "stone age" yet - and it wasn't until that point was reached that the human brain started inflating.