What characteristics made homo sapiens most notable?

Question

the leakey foundation

Answer 1

The ability to speak language, having opposable thumbs making it possible to make and use tools(although Chimps can use sticks as tools); a concept of religion, or a god, or spiritual matters; compassion for other people,(although many animals who live in herds do seem to show compassion and care for each other);  and the ability to reason things out, a primitive human had to be able to figure where game was going to be based on weather or other factors and things like that. Of course the ability to stand up and a larger brain than other animals.

Answer 2

i guess the eestablishment of spoken language, there are so many.

Answer 3

the ability to plan the future

Answer 4

Really large p***s

Answer 5

I'd have to say walking upright.  This was the adaptation that allowed us leave the trees and to see over the grass on the Savannah.

There's also the eating meat, extra protein, brain growth thing.

Oposable thumbs are cool and useful, but all primates have them (except for colobus monkeys - they freak me out!).  Thumbs are not unique to humans.  Walking upright and having huge brains are.

Answer 6

Thumbs for one, but also the ability to create tools to make tasks easier. Like a hammer or a spear or the wheel.  

Answer 7

The ability to systematically eradicate entire species.

Answer 8

Walking upright, opposable thumbs,our brains,spoken language, the ability to feel, reason, talk.  

Answer 9

Ability to plan future but no ability to learn from past.

(same as us)

Answer 10

standing up and looking over the horizon  

Answer 11

Their brain size.

Answer 12

they had bigger brain & head sizes than any early humans, including us >homo sapian sapians< i just tread a book on this! its very intresting. anyways they had bigger brains than any of this but they didnt use all of their brain. only half of it. so us today humans we have smaller brains but use amost all of it therefore we are smarter

Answer 13

Thumbs, imperfection, language, and persionally.

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Answer 14

THUMBS!!!