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How large a leap in cognitive ability do you think occurred between our last common ancestor with the great apes, and us? (p1) Was it mostly a change in personal intelligence, or could human success be explained by our greater ability to accumulate knowledge from others in society? How can we tell how much smarter, in the relevant sense, a chimp is than a human? This chapter claims Koko the Gorilla has a tested IQ of about 80 (see table 2).
What can we infer from answers to these questions?
I think it was the ability to work together thanks to omega-3s from eating fish among other things. Our ability to create a course of action and execute as a group started us on the path to the present day.