Darwin's Expansion Of Our Intellectual Capacity

In Charles Darwin’s theory, he has emphasized the importance of the expansion of our intellectual capacities. He puts much emphasis on the fact that we have a bigger encephalon compared that of to other species has allowed us to use and create different resources; in many ways, he concludes, we are superior to other animals in this nature. One example of this comes through the fact that Darwin explicitly states that “As the various mental faculties gradually developed themselves the brain would almost certainly become larger.” (54) Darwin also states that “He manifestly owes this immense superiority to his intellectual faculties.” (48) Simultaneously, he says that “…I see no reason to doubt that more perfectly constructed hands would have been an advantage to them, provided that they were not thus rendered fit for climbing trees.” All of these quotes from Darwin are focused on one thing, the expansion of man’s cerebral complex.

Our brains have gradually developed over time to become this extremely complex organ that controls our every move and instinct; this, is the cause of our “immense superiority.”() Darwin also compares the primitive human to that of the like of a chimpanzee or orangutan, in which he implies that the primitive human’s hands would be unfit for climbing trees, but fine for building and utilizing instruments. (48) In other words, as our brains have become larger, we have been able to manipulate objects better and have an overwhelmingly helpful advantage against constant threat of the competitive and merciless