Adaptation and Primatology
What makes us human? “There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery” (Charles Darwin). Animals have been compared to humans in their ability to show emotion in certain aspects and the way they function as a group. Even though we have been compared by animals there is a significant difference between Homo sapiens and other primates. The separation between humans and other primates is our mental ability to understand these certain traits as there happening. In society traits and behavior are consistently portrayed through the individual. Three behaviors that make us human are interactions with each other, emotions, and functions as a society. Then our three physical traits are our anatomy, race, and our evolution over time. Modern Homo sapiens have a distinct way of interacting with other human
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The fact of the matter is we crave attention of some sort from our loved ones and sometimes from people we don’t know. “A house may be large or small; as long as the neighboring houses are likewise small, it satisfies all social requirements for a residence. But let there arise next to the little house a palace, and the little house shrinks to a hut. The little house now makes it clear that’s its inmate has no social position at all to maintain” ( Karl Marx, Wage Labour and Capital) (12). Karl Marx speaks about in, Wage and Labour and Capital, how society has a greatly affected the way we function as humans, there’s a certain need for acceptance when it comes to the actions needed to be taken in order to receive social acceptance. This is shown in our society today with the pressure that is put out there to become some powerful individual with money. There is advertisements shown of men and women with a successful life that is shown as social