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It was his argument that it was "unique," not mine. And that still doesn't change the fact that most species who have had the privilege of not becoming a beast of burden or a food source, and some that have, still mostly live the same way they had many years ago. You can have birds teaching each other to remove the lids on jugs of milk back to the Roman days but they still live in nests and migrate with the season. A thousand years after humans have gone and former civilization has become indistinguishable, if there are "birds" still around, they'll probably still be making nests out of twigs and mud and migrating with the weather patterns.
Anthropologically-speaking if there is anything unique about the human animal it would be how we have cornered the market in our ability to transmit and retain both old and new information. Writing has made it such that things can be recorded then untouched for any number of years before someone uncovers it again; the existence of human information has gained a degree of independence from humans themselves and that is a powerful asset.