Many zoologists and research biological scientists believe that humans are nothing more than really fancy designed animals. That is to say more adapted and highly evolved than most all other species in the animal kingdom. Mankind indeed has conquered the top of the food chain yet if humans are merely animals, how come the species is so successful?

Recently this topic came up with the principle investigator of the Why Are Humans Unique Project in an online think tank who stated;

We could establish value boundaries beforehand from and establish our base model in determining and categorize the samples into there appropriate groups. I believe this would provide us with a sufficient process to measure whether or not each species is in the same grouping as the other.

Another think tanker in the group was fascinated by all this and then stated; Well this makes more sense, as the animal groupings each have particular characteristics that humans share, but humans have nearly all the capabilities whereas each animals species has one, two, three or so. With only a few species like Dolphins, Elephants, Pigs, Guerillas, Chimpanzees, Canines, etc. with many and very similar to humans. I would call these higher order mammals.

Yet in such a classification of the animal kingdom, it seems all this is available on the Discovery Channel, Animal Channel, Science Channel, NOVA and Mutual of Omahas Wild Kingdom. Even Encarta has charts of these things along with the Time Life Series which I have read all thru cover to cover. Most Zoology Text books I have perused do to.

The head researcher for the project also stated; I feel this procedure has a very good chance at providing the argument in question and other similar debates with a valuable data set.

The rest of the think tank members seemed to be inline with all this and one gentleman stated; I agree but it really seems all this has been done already and I have found fault with little of it. Some of the old stuff like animals do not make tools or use tools and those such thoughts have been dispelled now.

What are your thoughts on humans and their uniqueness? What have you considered about your own species identity? Have you considered any of these concepts? What do you think of the Why Are Humans Unique Project? Consider all this in 2006.