One of the things that makes us "superior, as we call it" over other animals is that we are SELF AWARE. Self aware of our intelligence and the ability to put that intelligence to work.

Dolphins, octopi, and chimpanzees are nearly as smart as humans, but they lack the self awareness that we use to make skyscrapers, internet porn, and twinkies.

Stupid rand multi thread is stupid.

yes, long time ago, we were fish, not ape ;)

There is a huge difference between us and other animals. Most skills we have are also possessed by animals however what matters is the extend. Even though other animals possess the same skills ours are often extremely further developed. Just compare the chinese language with its thousands of signs to the language of gorillas. COmpare the use of tools (all technology everything) with the ue of tools in chimpanzees. They are not even close to create the tools we were creating in the middle ages. Which monkey can create a sharp iron sword?

we can kill all related monkeys make them get extinct. Can they do something like that to us?

- we are capable of ruining the whole planet
- which animals can create a mercedes S class
- which animal does agriculture something we were doing 10000 ears ago
- Just thing of what you do each day, what machines you are using, the technoligies, what factory processed foots we are eating.
- we are creating the animals we want (all dogs are domesticated we created them the way we wanted through artificial selcetion we can do the same thing to chimps or anything elce)
- animals having philosophical lectures in classrooms?

If you reflect on a HUMAN life it is more than extremely different to an animal life. All animals are determined to follow what evolution has built in them. They have to reproduce there is no animal who cognitively decides lets not reproduce because then I can spend more money for myself. Reasoning of humans is capable to behave in an opposite way of what evolution and natural selection has put into us since more then 1500million years ago! We are the first species to do that.

- Is there any other species that can go into space with rockets on other planets?
- From all the billions and billions of species if the world get hit by a comet and gets totally destroyed humans can live out all other animals by going into space (ofc only for a limited period).

- Maybe some monkeys are close to us in a biological perspective e.g. chimpanzees got 99% of our genes, but let me tell you this look at the effect the 1% different DNA has done!!

This post was edited by MyAccountIsOsterHues on Oct 6 2009 05:25am

the humans experienced so much then animals, so you cant say we can make iron swords until they cant. its not a good compare, at the beggining we cant made iron sword or any good things just example a sharp stone. so dont compare the nowdays people to the animals.

hes right
we evolved into apes

When I see giraffes yakkin' away on their cellphone while cutting me off in traffic, and penguins ordering at the drive-through at Burger King, I'll say that other animal species are equal to us.

We have the capibility to evolve mentally, so, no.