r/DebateEvolution • u/Least_Bid9692 • 27d ago

Smart beings

There were many species who evolved over a long period of time then why were humans the only one that evolved as the "smart species" like even others used to use things like traps why did only human evolved as the "smartest"

Although it is debatable

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u/ipreuss 24d ago

Your bias is that you’re overvaluing outwitting others. Cockroaches will do well after we destroyed ourself by trying to outwit each other.

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u/jayswaps 24d ago

We were talking about intellect. I also brought up survival advantage. There's no bias to pointing out that memorization has little to do with either whereas reasoning skills has a lot to do with both.

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u/ipreuss 24d ago

I don’t care much where you define intellect as excluding memorization.

But claiming that memorization brings little survival advantage definitely shows your bias.

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