This is a good point. As a species we aren't particularly strong, see particularly well, smell with any acuity, hear with any particular precision, swim particu

This is a good point. As a species we aren't particularly strong, see particularly well, smell with any acuity, hear with any particular precision, swim particularly fast, run very fast, have natural weapons or any other thing which are typical hallmarks of animals near or at the top of the food chain, like cheetahs, or bears, or wolves etc. But we do lots of things pretty well and relatively efficiently sans our brains. So for example, a cheetah is faster than greased lightening, but it has no endurance. We're no cheetah speed, but we can run a horse to exhaustion or outclimb a bear or hunt in more organized packs than wolves, or find and eat a greater variety (and larger quantity) of food stuffs than a bear...in other words we have a larger variety of ways to extract energy from our environment than any other species, and we can do it in a larger variety of climates, conditions and cirumstances. This ability to extract and utilize energy, from all parts of the foodchain, as well as other kinds of energy than just caloric (fire, fuel, mechanical, etc.), is more the hallmark of "what makes us human" than anything else.