I think a good reply to that would be how much of the extreme human accomplishment can we call genetic? Could Neanderthals or primitive species in our lineage h

I think a good reply to that would be how much of the extreme human accomplishment can we call genetic? Could Neanderthals or primitive species in our lineage have accomplished this level of ingenuity given certain circumstances? Are our accomplishments really because of the currents state of our DNA, or because of a strange set of circumstances that allowed us to use our physical makeup to build cars rather than hunt tigers? If so, which other species were likely capable of this, but never had the means to build on it the way our culture has? Then, on the flip side, it's not even clear that many cultures we think of as members of humanity today would have landed on the (f--king) moon. I can see how it's not so obvious who, past and present, should even be considered members of this exceptional intelligence club.