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With the addition of language to the human culture came an increased mental capacity.

This allowed for human adaptation of the environment to be a learned process, unlike nonhuman species, whose adaptive process is instinctual.

This resulted in the acceleration of environmental, behavioral and genetic modifications.

As niche construction advocate Derek Bickerton writes, " We could construct our niches without having to wait on interminable rounds of feedback between genes and behavior.