▨ skills
"Imitation is how we acquire skills – any skill at all; and the gene for skill acquisition (imitation) would trump the genes for any individual skills. Thus from a gene – [...] – could arise a skill that would enable further evolution to occur not only more rapidly but in a direction of our own choosing – through empathy and co-operation" p. 251-3"imitation is a human characteristic, and is arguably the ultimately most important human skill, a critical development in the evolution of the human brain" p. 248