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  • folkrav@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Maybe it’s an English second language thing, or just how I expressed myself, but yes, I was referring to the first. Our technological capabilities are obviously on a whole other level. Electricity + transistors basically transformed the world. Plus the massive population growth.

    • AmidFuror@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      Yep, it’s just semantics, then. We are not more advanced in the sense of biologically more capable than people thousands of years ago. A few hundred thousand, maybe. Since the split from chimps, I like to think so!