> about all-encompassing knowledge and abilities of modern humans I agree. The reason we achieve so much more is the network of human cooperation in space and

> about all-encompassing knowledge and abilities of modern humans I agree. The reason we achieve so much more is the network of human cooperation in space and in time (with the ancestors who pass down to us knowledge, methods, culture, technologies, items, infrastructure). I have not ever seen any substantiated claims individuals got better apart from better software gotten through soft programming, the stuff I mentioned as passed from ancestors. With "better" I mean this: Would a baby created today and immediately given to hunter-gatherers (now or 10,000 years ago by "magic") do better then their babies? I doubt it.