At the risk of indulging a deep-seated delusion of grandeur, it might not be hyperbole to say that humans are the dominant species on the planet. This isn’t because we’re the most populous species, or the biggest and the strongest; in fact, by nearly every metric used to measure the size, power, and longevity of a particular species in the Animal Kingdom, humans don’t top out the spectrum in any demonstrable way﹘except for maybe one: our intellect.