Why are humans so different from other animals?

Why do humans drive cars and not chimpanzees? What explanations can be found in our prehistory? Magnus Enquist, Stockholm University, investigates what happened when the human and chimpanzee development line parted about 5.5 million years ago. One explanation is the human ability to do things in several steps and the ability to transfer accumulated knowledge from generation to generation. The long childhood and culture of humans are other reasons. To play and learn for a long time favors knowledge development.

[phylliswilton]

it's so fucking trippy to me that the human brain has become self-aware and is now studying itself

[blizzforte]

Why do we have religion, math, spirituality, quantum physics, chemistry, nuclear weapons, spacecrafts, the internet, philosophy, existentialism? Why do we look at the stars, and ask "why"? Why does the human brain feel the need to understand itself? Why do we manipulate matter on the nanoscale? Why do we have the capability to explore the macroverse and microverse with telescopes and microscopes? Why are we the only animal of billions of animals who does all these things?

[Chris-]

It feels weird how we just conquered this planet with no other species as a threat

[antcamartist]

I always like to imagine what a bear or random animal thinks when they see a large ass city that seems to go on forever

[JMNTN]

What i find even more impressive is the rate at which technologie evolved. Considering humans started using tools millions of years ago most major development only happened within the last hundreds of years. The oldest people still alive witnessed the uprise of technology from basic electric equipment to what we have now.

[HMAnetwork]

OK but why are our brains capable of learning all of that? Saying it's because we had longer childhoods is not enough.

[barnabydodd]

What if we lived in a world where another animal, like a bear or kangaroo, for instance, were not as smart as humans, but close. How would society work? Would those animals still be considered subservient to humans? Would it be considered discrimination? Would we have wars with them for the role of the dominant species? Would they eventually gain equality where they would be allowed to vote and serve in Congress? It’s a super weird thing to ponder...

[robinharwood]

"Why do humans drive cars and not chimpanzees? "

Have you ever tried driving a chimpanzee? Cars are much easier to drive.

[GoodBoy-luwx]

If you never learn to speak a proper language, can you still have deep thoughts and problem solving skills?

[visupremacy]

Well in fact that human is the most dangerous animal...we've been killing each other for 10.000 years, with the total more than million

[jermainbarry]

It only takes one genius or determined individual in a generation to change the way of life by discovering a new means of making life itself easier. That's how humans evolved through out the years, they're also capable of learning more complex materials if trained well.

[MFMinds]

relying on culture over genetic intelligence brings out a level of information gathering that is insurmountable... deep down we still are so similar yet our technology is allien fascinating I love learning

[Nesmaniac]

We are all born stupid, more so than many other animals and far more helpless. Having 2 loving and caring parents for support and guidance is so crucial to intelligence and then expanded upon by interaction with others in school.

[jonahs.]

The most distinguishing trait exclusive to humans is (in my somewhat ignorant opinion) the ability to think about thinking.

[TheChodex]

I used to think humans are very unique, but we are actually similar to ants. They also use tools, they also live in society, they also have pets (even slaves), they also have highways, build roads, have leader, workers, etc.

Only difference is that we are much bigger then ants and therefore can gather much more resources then them (since we have more power). I think if ants were as big as us that they would easily dominate the world

[wtalkie]

The video answers the question 'how' but not 'why'. Why did single celled organisms living in the same ecosystem, subjected to the same natural events allegedly evolved so differently that one became human and the other remained single-celled? Moreover, why we don't find several species creating advanced civilizations that compete together? Why only one animal species (humans) managed to achieve that by a huge margin? Other animals are not even close.

[-ixay-]

Its nice. This is no viral thing. Here you can see that views which this video has are only by people who actually serched for this and actually want to know about it.

[johnlamb]

I am interested to know if a another species in the far future could evolve human level of intelligence and build civilisations

[ClassicJukeboxBand]

When it comes to survival, this is my favorite quote about instinct: "There are no bad instincts. Only bad environments." Dan Sadler

[comrad_dog]

i think humanity is so advanced and successful as a species mostly because of our unique ability to collect and share information for generation and generations.