Agreed. Also, it’s not surprising that the universality threshold exists somewhere within the human range because we already know that humans are right by the cutoff. If the threshold were very far below the human range, then a less evolved species would have hit it before we came about, and they would have been the ones to kick off the knowledge explosion.
Regardless of where the threshold is, evolution routinely randomly breaks things anyway—it’s the only way it can find genes that have become redundant/useless. Sort of like ablation studies in machine learning papers.
Agreed. Also, it’s not surprising that the universality threshold exists somewhere within the human range because we already know that humans are right by the cutoff. If the threshold were very far below the human range, then a less evolved species would have hit it before we came about, and they would have been the ones to kick off the knowledge explosion.
Regardless of where the threshold is, evolution routinely randomly breaks things anyway—it’s the only way it can find genes that have become redundant/useless. Sort of like ablation studies in machine learning papers.