What makes us human?

What makes us human? Human is the name that we, as a species, have given ourselves. What makes us unique from the rest of the life on earth? It's a puzzling question that you may or may not have a guess to. Some people believe we were placed here on Earth by a divine being of some sort and made superior by divine will alone. I am not one of those people. I believe in the world I can see and can logically believe on my own, not what someone preaches at me. If you believe in evolution, one of the questions that arises (in my mind at least) is what makes us so special? What makes us so superior from the rest of the life on Earth that we can create and destroy on an enormous scale? Could life have favored reptilian creatures that, over time, evolved into sentience beings and left humans no more evolved than our ape relatives? This, I can only guess. Our future is just as muddled as our past. Will we, like many species have before us, gone extinct by famine, disease, or a catastrophic event? Or will we find a new planet to inhabit once ours is drained of all resources? This could become real problems that we will face during our lifetimes. On a more individual scale, what makes us different from everyone else? Why does everyone have a unique genetic makeup, finger-print, and can think independently, form opinions different from everyone around them, and question everything? We are, in short, amazing creatures.

 

I wish to exploit our uniqueness (or weirdness) through the world that we have created, the Internet. From the reason why we are attracted to different people to our evolution through time to where we are headed to in the future. Enjoy and keep thinking.