And by extension, the assumption is that animals can carry forward an unlimited amount of information from the past? I.e., humans rely on culture to "carry forward" ideas from the past that are outside their individual contextual window of experience?
I wasn't thinking in those terms, but yeah I like that. Humans are a kind of superorganism and a part of that is due to the power of culture to shape behavior in ways that are responsive to environmental changes deep in history beyond any individuals lifespan.
