The difference of Man (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, February 15, 2013, 16:12 (4300 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: The classification is irrelevant, except that some humans think it's an insult to their intelligence. What matters is the subjective value we attach to the similarities and differences, and the subjective interpretation we put on them.-Exactly. I am insisting that the subjective interpretations that come from insisting we are primates first and humans secondly, degrades the impression of our human-ness and makes us seem less special. We are very special. There is no evolutionary theory that demands our appearance on Earth. The primates from whom we descended are still travelling along happily unchanged, unevolved beyond their ancient and also current state. For a very unexplained reason our line took off and evolved well beyond what was required for survival. Why was that? Even you will not accept chance. What other choice is there but a driven directionality. What or who drove it?