"On top of that , what we accomplish with our bigger brain is , as I 've already demonstrated in other threads with reference to feral children , greatly dependent upon the accumulated wisdom imprinted upon the brain during infancy . We teach our children to problem-solve . We teach them language and abstract thought - we train the various parts of the brain to do their job properly . We are n't born 'complete ' . Even as adults , not everyone is equally quick-witted , not everyone has an equal facility for logical thought - and this has a lot to do with how their brain has been trained during its development ."
"And yet , many animals survive by instinct only , having been abandoned by their mother at birth . Would n't you think that with that capacity to survive without guidance that they would also have the capacity to learn new things from one generation to another as humans do , resulting in true intellectual evolution over the past 100 million years or so ?"
"On top of that , what we accomplish with our bigger brain is , as I 've already demonstrated in other threads with reference to feral children , greatly dependent upon the accumulated wisdom imprinted upon the brain during infancy . We teach our children to problem-solve ."
"And yet , many animals survive by instinct only , having been abandoned by their mother at"