> they don't have the ability for substantial transfer of information from generation to generation Right, we have writing. They do pass information on in the

> they don't have the ability for substantial transfer of information from generation to generation Right, we have writing. They do pass information on in the form of habits, hunting or otherwise. It took humans a long time (many many generations) to collectively have the concept of the number 0. The things we have figured out and spend years passing on in school are hard-won and written down. The few humans who do figure out fundamentally new concepts often interact through written collections.