It has nothing to do with any particular model of learning, let alone of intelligence in general. From the point of view that you have expressed here, it would seem a little surprising that "specialized at being human" includes things like calculus and topology. How do you include these things in a definition of the "being human" speciality that does not turn it into a vacuous category that says the specialization is everything that humans have shown themselves to be capable of, nothing more and nothing less?

If it were valid, one could take the argument in your last paragraph to draw a line at any point in the evolution of intelligence and say "this is as good as it gets."