#biology #evolution [[Julian Huxley]], introducing [[Darwin]]'s The Origin of the Species, said: >It further emerged that man constitutes the latest dominant group, and is today, thanks to his new method of evolving by the cumulative transmission of experience, the only type capable of realizing important new possibilities and of achieving further major advances in the future Man achieved the transfer of [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] through [[Memetic]] in addition to the [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] transferred by the [[Genome]], does it mean that [[Memetic]] does not exist in other animals? How the human [[Brain]] evolved to adapt to the computing & storage of [[Memetic]]? # Humans internal Red Queen competition made their big brains Unlike other animals, we are stuck in a highly game-theoretical arms race which lead to such a big brain. Why, say, dolphins don't create cities, bitcoin, and guns? # [[Memetic]] transfert tools Are [[Book]], the tool that allowed transfer of [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] through the generations, still the best [[Philosophy/Rationality/Learning]] tool in modern society?