What even is a

[@DorchesterMom]

To be human is to be at once both animal and divine, physical and spiritual. It’s to be conscious of the past, present, and future, to plan, to strategize, to dream, to act. It’s the ability to create art for arts sake. It’s everything we can imagine under the sun. It’s all in us ❤❤❤

[@czarina7786]

Unconditional love.

[@LeoneHudson-x3t]

I think the main thing that makes us human is our ability to understand and use symbols. Obviously meanings of symbols change over time, and depend on context, but the fact that we can look at markings, often recognise what they depict even if they are highly stylized, and were made with a purpose even though the original meaning is lost to us is mind blowing.

[@georgebetrian676]

Be humans means be defined by our diagnostic traits.

[@worldofpaleoanthropology]

What are those?

[@georgebetrian676]

@ I can not pinpoint one trait to define a human, but if I need to choose one trait that distinguishes us from other mammals, I would say the capacity to write with symbols our vocal communication and be reproduced by another human

[@JammedFuzzball]

Our being created in the lords image

[@ToumaitheMioceneApe]

eh

[@worldofpaleoanthropology]

Of all the possible reasons, that is by far the least scientific and correct you could’ve given 😂