The human specie separates itself from all other species due to its

- understanding of and inclination to playing infinite games

- superior ability to copy behavior and knowledge

- deep appreciation (implicit and sometimes explicit) of the concept of time preference

- capacity for imagining things

- ability to use abstractions

- self introspection

- communicating by the use of words

Anything else I should have mentioned?

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- Constant seeking out of technologies to make things easier or reproducible

- Creation of a written language to store and pass on collective learnings

- Invention of money, enabling individuals to specialise and exponentially grow communal skills