The earth contains a massive amount of biodiversity, like other animals on this planet, humans are just a member of the animal species. We tend to think or see ourselves as more superior to other living organisms because we have special features that allow us to function somewhat different from the rest of the animals. But still we are not different from the other animals, especially our closest living primate relatives, the bonobos and chimpanzees. To understand ourselves and what our place in the animal kingdom, we need to evaluate ourselves, though a comparison and contrast between the behavior of humans and other animals. What make us humans, and what makes us see ourselves as more superior than other animals are questions we need to answer.
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Humans like other animals live in group with close kin, in the past or current generation we live among our species. Humans help their communities, help the unfortunate ones in our communities. In general, we share necessity. In the movie, Ice world, 24,000 years ago in Europe during the last ice age, the three main characters joined a new tribe, this group of people helped them when they first arrived by providing food, shelter, and even provided medicine for one of the strangers who had food poison (Gluckman & Lambert, 2006). Later on, once they became assimilated by the tribe, they hunted wild animals and ate the food together. Similar to humans, our closest relative, chimpanzees also work together and share food with their close relatives, reciprocating partners or potential mates (Hogenboom, …show more content…
The anatomical prerequisite for humans to gain the ability to speak such as the absent and present of the air sac in hominids. Morphological changes of the face structures such as the growth of the supralaryngeal vocal tract and the descent of the larynx are the anatomical aspect of the possible contribution to the human speech. Bart de Boer (2012) studied the anatomical structure that involves the loss of air sacs serves as the possible evidence to why modern humans can produce complex language. The air sacs are present in apes and absent in modern humans and Homo neandethalensis is the interesting piece to why we and the Neanderthal are capable of speaking while the others cannot. de Boer (2012) concluded having an air sac sitting in the vocal tract results in a blockage of clear
Humans like other animals live in group with close kin, in the past or current generation we live among our species. Humans help their communities, help the unfortunate ones in our communities. In general, we share necessity. In the movie, Ice world, 24,000 years ago in Europe during the last ice age, the three main characters joined a new tribe, this group of people helped them when they first arrived by providing food, shelter, and even provided medicine for one of the strangers who had food poison (Gluckman & Lambert, 2006). Later on, once they became assimilated by the tribe, they hunted wild animals and ate the food together. Similar to humans, our closest relative, chimpanzees also work together and share food with their close relatives, reciprocating partners or potential mates (Hogenboom, …show more content…
The anatomical prerequisite for humans to gain the ability to speak such as the absent and present of the air sac in hominids. Morphological changes of the face structures such as the growth of the supralaryngeal vocal tract and the descent of the larynx are the anatomical aspect of the possible contribution to the human speech. Bart de Boer (2012) studied the anatomical structure that involves the loss of air sacs serves as the possible evidence to why modern humans can produce complex language. The air sacs are present in apes and absent in modern humans and Homo neandethalensis is the interesting piece to why we and the Neanderthal are capable of speaking while the others cannot. de Boer (2012) concluded having an air sac sitting in the vocal tract results in a blockage of clear