Humans are animals. This distinction is silly and I hope that kind of thinking will just die out at some point. I think it leads to hubris. In fact, if you sub

Humans are animals. This distinction is silly and I hope that kind of thinking will just die out at some point. I think it leads to hubris. In fact, if you subscribe to the (well-supported) idea that any living being can be hierarchically categorised by the traits it has, humans are still monkeys, in the same way that all birds are still dinosaurs. Personally, this is one of my favourite facts. I wonder what life would've been like if human-level intelligence had evolved from dinosaurs instead. As I understand it, birds have several features superior to what we've inherited. That said, it would be rather dishonest to claim that humans aren't one of the most successful species on the planet. I just hope we're clever enough not to cause our own extinction very soon, but it's not looking good.