humans vs animals

matthew · Apr 10, 2005

Fractual_ said:

i read somewhere that humans are actually growing by the decade or a certain time period in the amount of their brain they use, or the capacity for information, or both possibly. i also remember reading some historical account that humans have only evolved when they lived with nature, like apart of it as opposed to hiding inside of a bunch of walls most of the time and not ever hunting or gathering? dont know how valid these arguments are but there might be something to it...
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I have read that we have not altered much in about 12 thousand years..including our brains.. Due to not many people having a education (apart from there trade) . I just think we are using the same amount of brain power (or capacity).. we just gotten the opportunity to use it (over how many thousands of years)..not just the elite few.

I have heard the stuff about us and living in nature.. i think i have read that because we took up most of our time selfishly or just within a small tribe.. we did not realy care about the 'bigger questions' of life the universe etc.. We did not have burdensome ethics/morales/beliefs to impinge our thinking so we essentialy were more happy with our selves..I think we have 'evolved' more than any of those people could imagine. If its a good or bad thing i don't know...i can't complain

WipeYourAssWithAnOwl · Apr 12, 2005

Starlight Passion said:

could someone explain to me how we are the smartest creatures on earth? Animal's main goals are to stay alive and instinct tells them to care about the generations ahead of them. the strongest mate with eachother and the species as a whole grows stronger. alligators (or crocodiles) have some how managed to remain in existence since the dinosaurs. why aren't they the smartest creatures alive? dont get me wrong, if in a few years we figure out how to save the planet, or relocate than i take this all back. and are we still getting smarter? Scientists say we've come to an evelutionary standstill. we keep our weakest alive. we keep depending on braces to fix out teeth, and glasses and contacts for out eyes, meanwhile our kids are getting more crooked teeth, and worse eyesight. we're going backwards.

maybe your answer is we're better because we have more elaborate feelings. some people believe animals have no feelings at all, and others disagree. well sure, we have more elaborate feelings, some of us choose our g/f or b/f, husbands or wives for their personality not their looks. but along with that, we have greed, and hatred, wars for no reason.

Some people say animals lives aren't meaningful because they live off instinct. well which is better, living off instinct and living naturally, with main priorities being to make future generations stronger, or main priorities being money and possesions?

maybe we're the smart ones for insuring out food supply by breeding and practically growing lievstock for food, and for slowly killing off all other animals so they'll never get as smart as us

i once asked my brother what would happen if monkeys started talking, and we had another animal almost as smart as us to communicate with. and he said, we would most likely end up killing them before they got too smart, because we would be afraid. which is what started me thinking about how stupid the human species is.

looking forward to any comments....
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We should inter-breed with the animals...except the owls...we should kill them.

Blue Lobster · Apr 23, 2005

fat_tony said:

Dont think we're more diseased than any other species. Our complexity makes us more suceptable to cancer but thats about it. Although it is true that given our population size when a disease takes hold it kills more. This is more to do with genetic variation, if a disease will kill 1% of victims then more peopl will die in a population of 6 billion than 1 million.
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Humans do suffer from more genetic diseases than other species according to this:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6920

adelic86 · May 5, 2005

im not saying animals are better than humans, but realistically humans cause the most damage to the earth than any other species

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