@jens @futurebird human societies with no or little written language are still able to deal with any environment (and indeed, had most of the globe in-hand before recorded history began.) It's certainly nice but not essential.
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Homo Sapiens are best described as:@jens @futurebird I'd argue that our special ability is our ability to communicate and coordinate as a group which prevents wheel reinvention. This dovetails with the oxygen comment: An individual human can't survive the challenger deep, but human society can get someone there. The people in the sub don't have to be the same people that know about turning screws or measuring crush depths or wiring switches or debugging sonar.