Humans are distinguished by their vast diversity of fauna. It seems that everyone embarked on an evolutionary journey together, but suddenly people seem to have come a long way from the rest. Scientists naturally wonder: How exactly did our intelligence evolve? How did human civilization improve from generation to generation? At the same time, another question arises: Why did this evolution happen only to humans? Didn't any other animal, except humans, go through these stages of evolution? Or can't go? In response to this, some exciting possibilities have recently been seen in a particular species of crow.

Although the questions seem easy to hear, in fact the source is hidden between the two phrases "culture" and "cultural evolution". Almost all animals learn a lot from the environment around them which is reflected in their behavior. For example, dogs, penguins, chimpanzees, rats, rabbits, octopuses - all of them learn a lot from their surroundings. Sociologists call the differences in behavior that result from this "social education" "culture" [1]. It is now generally accepted that cultural diversity is a common occurrence in nature.

But it is not possible to explain the progress of human beings with the education that is acquired in one generation. For this, it is very important to take social education and keep it in mind and pass it on to the next generation. We see a lot of things around us, maybe learn something but forget again. In this case, there could be three things. One, I saw but did not learn anything. Two, I saw, I learned, but I could not teach it to anyone else. And three, I saw, learned and taught the other generation like an experienced person or the new generation learned by watching.

In this third case, Social education is passed down from one generation to the next. Apart from genetic and environmental evolution, human beings have been able to go this far only through the accumulation of social education. Demonstrated all the abilities that could never be achieved by an individual alone. This achievement cannot be given to any other animal except man. Although "culture" is normal, this "cumulative cultural evolution" is very rare in the animal kingdom. Incidentally, the main difference between cultural evolution and genetic evolution is that cultural evolution does not fit into the genetic code. That is, for this the next generation has to learn from the elders at their own urging. That education is not found in the birth itself.

The main difference between genetic evolution and cultural evolution is that cultural evolution does not fit into the genetic code. That is, for this the next generation has to learn from the elders at their own urging. That education is not found in the birth itself. The main difference between genetic evolution and cultural evolution is that cultural evolution does not fit into the genetic code. That is, for this the next generation has to learn from the elders at their own urging. That education is not found in the birth itself.

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