Rules for Humanity - Presentation

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Project: Rules For HumanityMuhammad Shahidul Islam

Roll No: 12310145Department: CSE

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Contents

What Makes Humans Different From Other Animals?

Animal Intelligence And The Evolution of the Human Mind.

What Does it Mean to be Human?

What makes humans different from other animals?

Language, writing, reasoning. All animals have language, but do they communicate to others. No animal writes or draws. This three are probably the most important that distinguishes humans from other animals.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090901092720AAxA5lR

http://www.livescience.com/33376-humans-other-animals-distinguishing-mental-abilities.html





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One is Communication

They have a sophisticated language and can effectively speak and others can understand. This means that information can be easily shared. Other animals may have a language but it is not sophisticated.

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Second is Reasoning and Conscience

"You "You If you ever looked at other animals, they don't know better than to steal. Whenever the most of us steal or murder, it gives us an uneasy feeling. It doesn’t really happen in almost all animals, if not all.We can also reason far beyond what other animals can.

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Third is the ability to pass down technology and build upon it.

Think about it. Do you think that chimpanzees will think about using a stick, and then the next generation sharpens the stick from what they've learned from their ancestors? Then the next one would probably attach rocks...no. Only humans can do this. This has in a way to do with communication but again it also differs.

Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/intelligence-evolved/



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As far as we know, no dog can compose music, no dolphin can speak in rhymes, and no parrot can solve equations with two unknowns. Only humans can perform such intellectual feats, presumably because we are smarter than all other animal species—at least by our own definition of intelligence.

Thus, researchers have tried to identify unique features of the human brain that could account for our superior intellectual abilities. But, anatomically, the human brain is very similar to that of other primates because humans and chimpanzees share an ancestor that walked the earth less than seven million years ago.

What Does it Mean to be Human?1. Upright Posture

2. Extraordinary Brains

3. Hands

4. Clothing

5. Blushing

6. Long Childhoods

7. Fire

8. Social Life

http://www.livescience.com/15689-evolution-human-special-species.html

http://humanorigins.si.edu/human-characteristics



Upright Posture

Humans are unique among the primates in how walking fully upright is our chief mode of locomotion. This frees our hands up for using tools.

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Extraordinary Brains

Without a doubt, the human trait that sets us apart the most from the animal kingdom is our extraordinary brain. Humans don't have the largest brains in the world — those belong to sperm whales. We don't even have the largest brains relative to body size — many birds have brains that make up more than 8 percent of their body weight, compared to only 2.5 percent for humans. Yet the human brain, weighing only about 3 pounds when fully grown.

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Hands

The human opposable thumb is longer, compared to finger length, than any other primate thumb. This long thumb and its ability to easily touch the other fingers allow humans to firmly grasp and manipulate objects of many different shapes. The human hand can grip with strength and with fine control, so it can throw a baseball or sign a name on the dotted line.

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Clothing

Humans may be called "naked apes," but most of us wear clothing, a fact that makes us unique in the animal kingdom, save for the clothing we make for other animals. The development of clothing has even influenced the evolution of other species — the body louse, unlike all other kinds, clings to clothing, not hair.

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Blushing

Humans are the only species known to blush, a behavior Darwin called "the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions." It remains uncertain why people blush, involuntarily revealing our innermost emotions. The most common idea is that blushing helps keep people honest, benefiting the group as a whole.

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Long Childhoods

Humans must remain in the care of their parents for much longer than other living primates. The question then becomes why, when it might make more evolutionary sense to grow as fast as possible to have more offspring. The explanation may be our large brains, which presumably require a long time to grow and learn.

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Fire

The human ability to control fire would have brought a semblance of day to night, helping our ancestors to see in an otherwise dark world and keep nocturnal predators at bay. The warmth of the flames also helped people stay warm in cold weather, enabling us to live in cooler areas. And of course it gave us cooking, which some researchers suggest influenced human evolution — cooked foods are easier to chew and digest, perhaps contributing to human reductions in tooth and gut size.

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Social Life

Sharing food, caring for infants, and building social networks helped our ancestors meet the daily challenges of their environments.

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Reference





http://humanorigins.si.edu/human-characteristics

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