What makes us human?

This week when we talked about what qualities make humans unique, I found it somewhat difficult to think of examples. As humans, we really do have a lot in common with animals, probably more than most of us realize. What I find most interesting is the family aspect that most animals seem to have in one way or another. Some stick with their parents, who care for them, until they're old enough to be on their own, just like humans. In this way, we see the need for nurture exhibited, which is something that the isolated children we learned about didn't have. It was because they weren't cared for that they weren't able to function in society. We need people to guide us in our lives. They teach us things like morals, which is something I think is unique to humans. We have a sense of right and wrong, while for many animals it's about survival of the fittest. And although we have very complicated ways of thinking, we don't really know how many animals think. I think it's entirely possible that many animals are very smart. We just don't really know because we live in a totally different world.