Are Humans Animals

[idav]

According to what I hear from science Humans are Great Apes along with Gorillas, Orangutans and Chimpanzees. They are cousins through evolution.

Humans have bodies that are genetically and structurally very similar to those of the Great Apes and so we are classified in the Great Apes sub-group which is also known as the hominids (Family Hominidae). The first apes evolved about 25 million years ago and by 20 million years ago were a very diverse group.

Humans are apes – ‘Great Apes’ - Australian Museum

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Yes.

 

[psychoslice]

Yes of course we are, its just that there are those who believe they are higher than other animals, makes me laugh actually.

 

[sayak83]

According to what I hear from science Humans are Great Apes along with Gorillas, Orangutans and Chimpanzees. They are cousins through evolution.

Humans are apes – ‘Great Apes’ - Australian Museum

yes.

 

[allfoak]

Our souls are spread out across seven kingdoms.
The three lower kingdoms of animal, vegetable and mineral.
Three heavenly kingdoms and the fourth kingdom which is a transient kingdom, the kingdom of man.
The animal.kingdom is just a small part of who we are.

 

[The Kilted Heathen]

I don't know if I would go so far as to say we are apes, but we are certainly evolutionarily related to them.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I don't know if I would go so far as to say we are apes, but we are certainly evolutionarily related to them.

According to taxonomy and evolutionary science, we are apes. We're primates. (No, not monkeys.)

 

[Unveiled Artist]

According to what I hear from science Humans are Great Apes along with Gorillas, Orangutans and Chimpanzees. They are cousins through evolution.

Humans are apes – ‘Great Apes’ - Australian Museum

Yes.

I don't see humans as the only separate "Species" out there when each species share with others. We are no exception.

 

[Guy Threepwood]

I don't know if I would go so far as to say we are apes, but we are certainly evolutionarily related to them.

We share some vague physical similarities, that's about all we can say for sure. It's a semantic question mostly but I would vote no, we are distinct from the animals.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

We share some vague physical similarities, that's about all we can say for sure. It's a semantic question mostly but I would vote no, we are distinct from the animals.

So you're a plant, bacteria or fungus?

 

[Guy Threepwood]

So you're a plant, bacteria or fungus?

I think that would be getting even further away, don't you?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I think that would be getting even further away, don't you?

Well, that's pretty much all the kingdoms that are left. So which are you? There's no special one for humans, because we're part of the animal kingdom.

 

[Guy Threepwood]

Well, that's pretty much all the kingdoms that are left. So which are you? There's no special one for humans, because we're part of the animal kingdom.

Sure there is: Kingdom of God

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Sure there is: Kingdom of God

Not in science. Try again.

 

[suncowiam]

Sure there is: Kingdom of God

Touche!

 

[Glaurung]

Physically I can accept that we are little different from any other animal. We eat, sleep, breed, defecate and we are made of much the same stuff as any other animal. But I don't accept that humans are to be defined simply along those bodily lines. For me it is an article of faith that humans are truly distinct being in the image of God. We're rational (no other lifeform on this planet comes even remotely close to the subjective complexity of a human) and we have a spiritual element which transcends the physical. I.e an immortal soul.

 

[Aupmanyav]

If we care for others then we are humans, otherwise we are lowest of animals.

 

[Guy Threepwood]

Not in science. Try again.

There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy..

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy..

That's nice, but it's still not science.

 

[Valjean]

According to what I hear from science Humans are Great Apes along with Gorillas, Orangutans and Chimpanzees.

Well, pretty good apes, anyway.

We share some vague physical similarities, that's about all we can say for sure. It's a semantic question mostly but I would vote no, we are distinct from the animals.

We share a lot of features, but it's our DNA that finally clinched our ape status.

Sure there is: Kingdom of God

And what are the distinguishing physical characteristics of this clade?