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ELI5: Why aren't there any animals as smart as Humans?

There are thought to be millions of species on earth,  yet nothing has gotten even close to mankind. We built superstructures and have complex languages and relationships.

You'd think that that more than 1 in millions of species in the history of earth would get close to seeming as intellectually advanced as humans. Why is this not the case? What makes us so special?
gpt
Because evolution isn't about a specific goal and humans aren't any more "advanced" than millions of other species.  We just found an unexploited niche (high-level communication which facilitated complex cooperation) that happened to be especially bountiful.  If, for some reason, it hadn't allowed us to survive and reproduce so prolifically then we would have been just another evolutionary dead end.