The birth of writing was the genesis of civilization. ------ Few things have been more significant for the development of homosapiens, the being whose period of dependency is longer, and whose genetically encode instincts are fewer than any other.

(A) Humanity's great evolutionary advantage is that we are par excellence, the learning animal.

(B) For the first time knowledge could be accumulated and handed on to future generations in a way that exceeded, in quantity and quality, the scope of unaided memory.

(C) Writing was the breakthrough by which the present could hand on the lessons of the past to the generations of the future.