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Here's a few guesses, please correct me if I'm wrong about these! The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post t

Here's a few guesses, please correct me if I'm wrong about these! The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it's to post the wrong answer. https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#cunninghams-law https://github.com/dwmkerr/hacker-laws#cunninghams-law Culture list from https://github.com/peterburk/sortlikes https://github.com/peterburk/sortlikes based on a manual categorisation of friends' liked Facebook pages, when trying to learn Mandarin while living in Taiwan a few years ago. Unique to humans: { Art, Dance, Photography, Theatre, Banking, Business (Management), Causes (NGOs), Comedy, Cooking, Clothing, Driving, Movies, Music, News, Politics, Religion, Sport, Transport, Software, Hardware } Shared with other species: { Accommodation, Children, Cleaning, Construction, Drinking, Education, Games, Health, International, Military, Pets }

macrolime 5y ago
Several species can dance to music https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/04/01/297686709/the-list-of-animals-who-can-truly-really-dance-is-very-short-who-s-on-it https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/04/01/297686709/t...
circlefavshape 5y ago
Politics is definitely not unique to humans - alliance-building is commonplace among social animals. It's well-known that primates have a sense of fairness, so they might have causes too. News is essentially gossip writ large, so if other animals have language then they definitely have this. Banking, photography, driving, movies, software and hardware are all recent human inventions, so it's kinda irrelevant whether other animals have those Clothing may be unique to humans, but historically not all humans have used clothes. Bird and whale song is probably music. Birds do courtship dances. IMO this probably counts as art. Again if other animals have language they might also have comedy, religion, theatre - without knowing that they don't have language then we can't rule those out. Business - not sure. If other animals have trade then I guess that's business? There's some evidence of exchange among other animals, but I'm not sure it counts as "trade" https://theconversation.com/what-trade-deals-can-teach-us-about-the-animal-kingdom-68686 https://theconversation.com/what-trade-deals-can-teach-us-ab... All that's left unique to us is cooking. I suspect your first list could be reduced to one definite - "fire" - and two maybes "language" and "trade". I'd bet that maybe animals have language, but that we haven't deciphered it yet
- vageli 5y ago
  > All that's left unique to us is cooking. Seems we may not be the only ones that cook after all. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/06/03/411748170/chimps-are-no-chumps-give-them-an-oven-theyll-learn-to-cook https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/06/03/411748170/ch...
- Ygg2 5y ago
  What's unique to humans is the quantity and quality. Sure. Every species does something we do. But compared to us, not a single species does everything, nor to a degree we do.

macrolime 5y ago

Several species can dance to music https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/04/01/297686709/the-list-of-animals-who-can-truly-really-dance-is-very-short-who-s-on-it https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2014/04/01/297686709/t...

circlefavshape 5y ago

Politics is definitely not unique to humans - alliance-building is commonplace among social animals. It's well-known that primates have a sense of fairness, so they might have causes too. News is essentially gossip writ large, so if other animals have language then they definitely have this. Banking, photography, driving, movies, software and hardware are all recent human inventions, so it's kinda irrelevant whether other animals have those Clothing may be unique to humans, but historically not all humans have used clothes. Bird and whale song is probably music. Birds do courtship dances. IMO this probably counts as art. Again if other animals have language they might also have comedy, religion, theatre - without knowing that they don't have language then we can't rule those out. Business - not sure. If other animals have trade then I guess that's business? There's some evidence of exchange among other animals, but I'm not sure it counts as "trade" https://theconversation.com/what-trade-deals-can-teach-us-about-the-animal-kingdom-68686 https://theconversation.com/what-trade-deals-can-teach-us-ab... All that's left unique to us is cooking. I suspect your first list could be reduced to one definite - "fire" - and two maybes "language" and "trade". I'd bet that maybe animals have language, but that we haven't deciphered it yet

vageli 5y ago
> All that's left unique to us is cooking. Seems we may not be the only ones that cook after all. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/06/03/411748170/chimps-are-no-chumps-give-them-an-oven-theyll-learn-to-cook https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/06/03/411748170/ch...
Ygg2 5y ago
What's unique to humans is the quantity and quality. Sure. Every species does something we do. But compared to us, not a single species does everything, nor to a degree we do.