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21 Nov 2007, 3:16 pm

how do humans differ from animals? in what ways are humans different?

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21 Nov 2007, 3:19 pm

Opposable thumbs and brain size.


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21 Nov 2007, 3:44 pm

alei wrote:
Opposable thumbs and brain size.


And less hair/fur stuff.



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21 Nov 2007, 3:47 pm

Highly developed conceptual language. And the ability to make animals out of chocolate.



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21 Nov 2007, 4:22 pm

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21 Nov 2007, 4:35 pm

Humans don't have tails.


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21 Nov 2007, 4:59 pm

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


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21 Nov 2007, 5:08 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
Humans don't have tails.


some humans do in fact have tails...notably the child in india: http://www.creation-vs-evolution.us/visual-evolution/


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21 Nov 2007, 5:36 pm

Written language, highly developed frontal lobes.


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21 Nov 2007, 5:38 pm

agriculture


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21 Nov 2007, 5:52 pm

Berserkers.



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21 Nov 2007, 6:23 pm

Different cultures.



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21 Nov 2007, 6:23 pm

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.


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21 Nov 2007, 6:29 pm

Being intelligent, more than just numbers, slaves to DNA.

It's a tad ironic that nature developed animals which could one day modify DNA of its own accord. Evolution which lead the human race to challenge and defy nature, use the environment and materials to construct tools, artificial constructs, which both benefit and harm the human species, whilst destroying other species. Nature created the most dangerous, dominant, unchallenged predator of them all. And yet humanity is also capable of so much good.

What humans are is human.


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21 Nov 2007, 6:29 pm

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.


You're smart.