The topic recently came up in an online think tank as to if Human are truly unique to all other animals. Are they? That indeed is hard to say, but at least one researcher wanted to prove it and will thru experimentation find some answers to this question. Yet in doing so, another think tanker has asked yet another question and provided us with some insight. As he stated: So, why are we needing scientific data. Humans are animals and there is no real difference, which warrants a separate classification. The fact that we drive cars, fly planes and have jobs is somewhat of a new trend in human evolution and although we have leisure time to think, that it is not so uncommon amongst large top of their food chain mammals? Dolphins, Cats, Herd Animals, Dogs, etc do this as well and many higher order birds seem to and even reptiles seem to reason, strategize and such in building homes, hunting and self preservation. Interesting comments indeed and we know that currently humans are of the animal kingdom and classified as large higher-order mammals. And thus the think tanker went on to ask some more hard hitting questions: So, I do not see a need to re-categorize each or re-classify each. In fact the previous work in this field which tries to separate out humans as a separate classification is about as absurd as the Plantation Owners in the South trying to prove that their Negro Slaves were savages and non-humans or a separate category. How do you feel about the thought that humans are only animals and that there is really not one single behavioral characteristic which makes them unique from all other animals. Consider all this in 2006. |
