Are we animals?

Question

We obviously mate, eat, and sleep like all other animals, and we are taught that we are in the mammalian group.

Answer 1

Of course not!!! Why bring the animals down to our level!

Answer 2

We're animals. We're just more evolved.

Answer 3

Right - we mate, eat, and sleep like all other animals, and we are taught that we are in the phylogenetic class Mammalia because we are animals.

Answer 4

Yes, we're animals,more specifically, vertebrates, more specifically, mammals, more specifically, primates, more specifically, apes.

Answer 5

Yup, and on a level even more basic than just being mammals, we're all just carbon based life forms whos evolution, appearance, and instincts are regulated by DNA.

Answer 6

No. we are God-made. We have more supernatural powers than we can imagine.

Answer 7

Of course we'll animal but we are animals that question it's existance. Animals communicate, humans extra communicate.  Animals take what they need, humans take what they need and extra.  Science puts us in the animal kingdom under the ape subspecies but we are called the knowledgable.  Are we the king of the kingdom? Face off with a lion and who would win, not you unless you pulled out your cellphone and called 911.  We seem to be isolating ourselves from the rest of the animal kingdom.  This is something that has not happened before. Isolation in evolution causes changes. Also, we are learning to shape nature to our wants and needs. I would say that we are an animal in the process of escape from being an animal.

Answer 8

since we share up to 99% of our dna with animals ,i think that speaks for itself .

Answer 9

We look like some animals but there is a big difference:

Conscience

Answer 10

Must learn carefully,

We all Humans till date are from the lineage of the evoluted progenies of the Animals.  The meagre difference that enables us to stand apart, to address ourselves as SOCIAL ANIMALS, is the inherent evolved development of an elemental being called the Mind... being originated by the awareness of essence felt by the cyclic growth of the Neurons, gaining the mean by evolutionary process and partly due to experience that we learnt to design & deploy the play of neuro'genesis act faster and precisely...

Hence there are certain ways of quoting the Uneducated or Obscured Person to be commonly called as ANIMALS, for the reasons that their output & quality of Workmanship and Doings impose on us an understanding to comparably address them as such.

But.... We all Humans, are Social Animals, who live in legions... hence the birth of Re-legion has orginated, there'from

Answer 11

There is a rather little difference between all living things on this planet.  To think that humans are anything superior ("image of god") or more than the others, it's just plain megalomaniac and charasteristic for undeveloped and religous "reasoning"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal

Answer 12

We're eukaryotic, motile heterotrophs without cell walls and as embryos we go through a blastula stage.  So yes, humans absolutely are animals.

Answer 13

If you spent some time on the Politics page you would probably vote vegetable or mineral, but, yes, animal seems best