| Thekak said the word - culture.  After 3 anthropology classes, this stuff has been beaten into my head.  And what tiberry said - "whole that is greater than the sum of its parts".
 What makes humans so amazing is that each person only needs to know a fraction of the combined cultural knowledge.  And with language we have the ability to communicate the new knowledge we acquire - pass it on so that it becomes cultural knowledge and not individual knowldge, which wont be much good once you die.
 
				__________________'Charmant, respektlos, und immer betrunken.'
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