in short human exceptionalism became clear about 300 years ago, and has been becoming more clear with each succeeding year? If so that is a relatively recent d

in short human exceptionalism became clear about 300 years ago, and has been becoming more clear with each succeeding year? If so that is a relatively recent demonstration of exceptionalism. Given the long timeline of human existence it could even be argued that it is accidental that this proof of exceptionalism developed among the humans and not among some other species. I actually believe in human exceptionalism, in that many of the features spread around various species are all found highly developed in the human, but really that is an argument for all species exceptionalism. There are very few species that do not some collection of interlocked traits that make them exceptional in some way, it just happens that our exceptionalism is one that allows for triumphalism at the same time.