how do humans differ from animals?

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21 Nov 2007, 6:32 pm

Humans kill for other reasons than survival.

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21 Nov 2007, 10:39 pm

Humans get to smelling very bad when they don't bathe.

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22 Nov 2007, 12:06 am

A capacity to be good, or be evil, and commit acts in either camp. I wonder if there exists an animal other than humans that is capable of hatred.

Abstract thought, and a capacity to think beyond ourselves. What animal other than a human would contemplate the nature of the universe, of existence?

Humans are the most non-deterministic of all animals; most animals are algorithmic to some degree; humans exhibit a low degree of predictability, in comparison, especially when it comes to individuals.

A capacity for spirituality.

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22 Nov 2007, 12:15 am

Aridarr wrote:

TheBladeRoden wrote:

agriculture

Actually, no. Certain colonial insects actually farm fungi for their own consumption, and ants have been known to care for aphids and milk them like cattle. Primitive, perhaps, but still comparable to human agriculture.

I can't believe you beat me to mentioning this! I'm supposed to be the Wrong Planet's resident etymologist. You just earned 10 respect points in my book.

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22 Nov 2007, 10:05 pm

killing and hurting other animals (and other people) for pleasure and being aware of that it is wrong

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22 Nov 2007, 11:36 pm

humans hav much more intelligent that other animals of earth

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23 Nov 2007, 5:32 am

Not at all.

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23 Nov 2007, 8:58 am

well apprently we are 99% gorilla and 97% mouse which makes 196% in total but that makes no sense at all

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23 Nov 2007, 11:10 am

tinky wrote:

lying, knowing when they are cruel, knowingly create their own culture, and thinking abstractly.

Animals lie, same animal make a living from it.

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23 Nov 2007, 2:30 pm

littlesmiley wrote:

well apprently we are 99% gorilla and 97% mouse which makes 196% in total but that makes no sense at all

I like that!

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23 Nov 2007, 3:52 pm

alei wrote:

Opposable thumbs

Some animals actually do have these.

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23 Nov 2007, 3:53 pm

webster wrote:

humans hav much more intelligent that other animals of earth

Uh, no.

Cats and dogs. Some birds too.

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23 Nov 2007, 6:41 pm

Humans, they're the ones that will either destroy this universe, or create a new universe, while also destroying our current universe. Either humans will, or an alien race who is more 'evolved', or a future creature that will evolve from humans (like we evolved from the great apes).

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