If you think about it, life on Earth is the story of a singular expressive organism fanning out in countless ways to learn and grow in an impossible number of conditions.
Given that we all share a common ancestor. Every single organism is a singular part of a meta whole, stretching back billions of years, changing an incalculable number of times. And currently culminating in animals like Humans and various primates, Dolphins and other sea mammals, Crows and other covida, and various Canids, all examples of potentially the smartest creatures to ever live on the planet.