Hunter-gathering probably needed skills that are harder to AI-replace *for the common individual* even if farmer societies can use their greater numbers to accumulate more technology. This is because farmer societies move around less and have more specialized labor, making life require more narrower tasks and less general problem solving. That latter is what we call “intelligence”. The 21st century is reversing this trend rapidly with automation.
Farming existed almost all over the world for long enough for natural selection to matter but not enough for our DNA and cultures to completely “forget” life as a hunter gatherer. Modern society is (most likely) a mix of ~10 hunter-gather phenotypes to ~90 farmers. The farmer phenotype has a lot of less interest in asking “why”. The “intelligence” difference between a person who asked “why” since age 3 and one who didn’t is a result of massive differences in training. Same with any other talent such as violin.
No non-human animal species with a well-studied intelligence had a sudden transition in the “window” of ~10000 years ago that drastically changed the skills needed to get by.
we cannot conclude “that a single human cannot have a complex adaptation that is not universal”
You seem to have missed an important word, so I bolded it for you. A reproductively isolated population is a very different case. For example, a bunch of finches got stuck in the Galapagos a few million years ago; you might have heard of them.
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Hunter-gathering probably needed skills that are harder to AI-replace *for the common individual* even if farmer societies can use their greater numbers to accumulate more technology. This is because farmer societies move around less and have more specialized labor, making life require more narrower tasks and less general problem solving. That latter is what we call “intelligence”. The 21st century is reversing this trend rapidly with automation.
Farming existed almost all over the world for long enough for natural selection to matter but not enough for our DNA and cultures to completely “forget” life as a hunter gatherer. Modern society is (most likely) a mix of ~10 hunter-gather phenotypes to ~90 farmers. The farmer phenotype has a lot of less interest in asking “why”. The “intelligence” difference between a person who asked “why” since age 3 and one who didn’t is a result of massive differences in training. Same with any other talent such as violin.
No non-human animal species with a well-studied intelligence had a sudden transition in the “window” of ~10000 years ago that drastically changed the skills needed to get by.
we cannot conclude “that a single human cannot have a complex adaptation that is not universal”
You seem to have missed an important word, so I bolded it for you. A reproductively isolated population is a very different case. For example, a bunch of finches got stuck in the Galapagos a few million years ago; you might have heard of them.