Development

We have to speculate as to what the development of other species was like but there can be no doubt that the growth and development of the human race is analogous to the growth and development of a human being from infancy to maturity. Tabula rasa is the term used to describe the state of a human in its infancy. As the infant develops under the guidance of adult humans it acquires the knowledge that those adults have attained. But if the same infant were to be raised by adults who do not have the same level of exposure to knowledge the child would only attain the lower level of knowledge.