Steve Jobs Once Described What Set Humans Apart From Apes And Other 'High Primates': The Apple Co-Founder Said This Is What Matters The Most

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Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs once framed humanity's edge over apes and other high primates in simple terms: people build tools, then use those tools to outrun their own limits. Jobs Saw Bicycles As Proof Of Human Advantage In interviews from the early 1980s, Jobs described reading a Scientific American study that measured how efficiently different species moved. The condor, he said, used the least energy to travel a kilometer, while humans made "a rather unimpressive showing," ranking about