The difference between humans and animals...
It used to be easy: Man is more than an animal because he makes and uses tools; uses language; makes war on and hunts his own kind; reasons and remembers; laughs; loves; is motivated by altruism... In the past few decades we have come to know that not one of these things--not even several of them together are unique to human beings. In fact, they are not even unique to the higher primates. I've come to the tentative conclusion (all conclusions are essentially tentative...) that what makes us... Sign in to see full entry.