I guess what makes humans different is that culture can let us go beyond our phenotype. And whilst it may look simplistically deterministic it really isnt. Fo

I guess what makes humans different is that culture can let us go beyond our phenotype. And whilst it may look simplistically deterministic it really isnt. For example in the UK a lot of development clusters around old WWII airfields. The pattern of development is a result of aircraft needing flat places for runways. Runways that were needed because of a complex geopolitical conflict. And then selected for development due to politics. Slime molds don't do that. To suggest we are somehow not different is another kind of arrogance. We absolutely are and that gives us a unique level of agency and control. That is brilliant and scary. We are able to turn down the thermostat of an entire planet (reduce co2). That kind of culturally motivated intervention is completely unprecedented and totally different to historic humans and other species.