I’ve become substantially more confident in the past two years about Robin’s position on the differences between humans and chimps.
Henrich’s book The Secret Of Our Success presents a model in which social learning is the key advantage that caused humans to diverge from other apes. This model is more effective than any other model I’ve seen at explaining when human intelligence evolved.
To summarize chapter 2: Three year old humans score slightly worse than three year old chimpanzees on most subsets of IQ-like tests. “Social learning” is the only category where the humans outperform chimpanzees. Adult humans outperform chimpanzees on many but not all categories of IQ-like tests.
If humans have an important improvement in general intelligence over chimpanzees, why are its effects hard to observe at age 3?
I’ve become substantially more confident in the past two years about Robin’s position on the differences between humans and chimps.
Henrich’s book The Secret Of Our Success presents a model in which social learning is the key advantage that caused humans to diverge from other apes. This model is more effective than any other model I’ve seen at explaining when human intelligence evolved.
To summarize chapter 2: Three year old humans score slightly worse than three year old chimpanzees on most subsets of IQ-like tests. “Social learning” is the only category where the humans outperform chimpanzees. Adult humans outperform chimpanzees on many but not all categories of IQ-like tests.
If humans have an important improvement in general intelligence over chimpanzees, why are its effects hard to observe at age 3?