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In my oppinion, there are strong differences between us and animals that makes us unique in the animal kingdom. Those "differences" are called creativity, imagination, thinking about the past, present and future (not just "what am I gonna eat" or "I have to find a mate"), reflection, culture (art, music etc.), great curiosity (which led to science --- I mean which other animal had ever built a space shuttle or a LHC?) etc....
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we are far better than any other animal (we are animals). But what I'm trying to say - you can't compare apples and oranges.
Clearly, it's an interesting perspective on humanity but the director should have mention human discoveries, space flights, computers, internet, maths etc. as well. Not just showing the human instincts and the "animalistic behavior". Mention an animal which is philosophizing about the meaning of life? Who/what created life? Where do we come from? Those questions led to religion and science.
Well, that's my oppinion.
You can criticize me if you like :) :P
09/21/09
Also, "The Great Questions scatter like roaches when you flip on the blinding light of pure pragmatism."
While I do not disagree with your main point (there are strong differences between us and animals that makes us unique in the animal kingdom) I would say that most of the traits we possess that make us different don't make us different by us having them, but to what degree do we use them. For example, crows, chimpanzees, parrots and dolphins all use tools in one way or another. We use the most the most often and with the most modifications.
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That's Gawker media for ya. Every now and then, they feel the need to cross promote their various blogs by plucking stories and then hitting the ol' shuffle button. This is why Gizmodo ends up with posts that should be on LifeHacker, and io9 gets the bits from Lauren that seemed originally written for TreeHugger. I'd give them a harder time about it, but it's not like they are the only ones doing it. AOL cross-promotes the heck out their properties too.
09/21/09
Of course, I was tricked into learning about biology! Like educational toys! BOOO!!
Seriously though, I remember it being very interesting. I'll have to watch it when I'm not making honey for Queen Corporate.