What makes humans a unique species?

Question

What makes humans a unique species?

Answer 1

We walk on hind legs.

Answer 2

Look around you... at your surrundings, at your computer, at our home. Can other animals make that? Then think.

There you go... we dominate ALL other species in terms of intelligence...

Answer 3

Our a ability to use our thumbs and our brains to do whatever we need and feelings.

Answer 4

The ability to ask questions such as yours, to find the answers to them, and to choose which answers you want to live your life believing.

Answer 5

We worship; mourn our dead ( and ritually dispose of them); imagine,plan far ahead, and are adaptable to any changing need.  We are literate, allowing us to record our past, transmit info to any era; we appreciate creativity of any sort and do so for no reason even.  We will risk life and family to rescue another; will negotiate peace and forgive; care about ALL creatures to the point of exerting all effort in preserving them; are aware of ourselves and possess the only ability to destroy ourselves and all life.

Answer 6

Intellect.

Intellect is what seperates man from the animals. We are able to have higher thought, reason, and morals.

Answer 7

Language.  Every species communicates in some way, but we're the only one that uses verbal (and written) language...

And we make our own tools.  Several species of apes use tools, but just twigs they pick up off the ground.  Can't forget opposable thumbs.  Allows us to pick stuff up with our hands, and walk while carrying it.

And, to a greater extent than any other species on Earth, we rely on our intelligence for defense, as we have no other natural defense mechanism.

Answer 8

Complexity.

Answer 9

we lie and cheat and rape...

Answer 10

we are all different----------we have different personalities, different perspectives, different way of thinking, our toes look different, we have our own special ways of going about things and our own way of thinking-----------------------thats why we are all so unique.....

Answer 11

We have a mental capacity more than that of a monkey

(most of us) and we have the ability to think and love. Unlike animals, everything they do is out of instinct.

Answer 12

We know the difference between right and wrong.

Answer 13

The brain without a doubt.

Answer 14

An ability to think ahead.

Answer 15

Our impact on the world

Answer 16

We are the only known species that deliberately prey upon one another physically, mentally, emotionally, and materialistically.

Answer 17

the ability to reason.  In other words the ability to think stuff thru.   Most animals just go with their guts and, like Nike said, just do it, but we humans have the ability to reason, thus make more intelligent decisions.   For this reason, we are, for now, at the top of the food chain.

Answer 18

The degree of complexity of communication.

Answer 19

The human is the only being capable of consciously controlling his number of offspring.

Answer 20

we question the world we live in and have a broad rage of emotions.

Answer 21

A combination of the right body features - hands with opposable thumbs, the ability to walk upright - and the capacity for logic and reasoning. This means we have both the ability to manipulate our environment and the ability to figure out how to manipulate our environment. While there are other animals with similarities in some areas, they are lacking in the others. For example, dolphins are extremely intelligent animals, but they lack the body parts to truly manipulate their environment.

I would also add that our ability to communicate through speech and the written word also plays a major factor. This gives us the ability to pass down knowledge and build on it.

Answer 22

Inability to procreate and produce viable offspring. with non-humans.

This is the definition of speciation, regardless of what species you're talking about.  Donkeys and horses are separate species, because their offspring are sterile.  Same with lions and tigers.

Answer 23

shame

Anthony Pittarelli

Answer 24

First would be thumbs, complex communication skills, tool use, curiosity leads to discovery, ambition, faith, and the list goes on and on.

Answer 25

Well that we have the mind to create highly technological things that no other known species has been able to create.

Answer 26

Oh let's see...we can speak, feel emotions, drive, think, be on the very top of the food chain, ask strange questions, learn, opposable thumbs...