Humans are No Different

 Humans keep comparing others to animals. “Hey, dude! You eat like an animal!” But aren’t we animals ourselves? We have evolved from apes. That is common knowledge. However, many, many humans fail to see that we are still apes. No matter the evolution. We still have their palms, hair in all the same places but less in size and number, and we are still four-limbed. The only difference is that they eat fruits, and I don’t.

We are all one species right now, called Homo sapiens, but it wasn’t always like that. There used to be a lot of other species, but the most prominent ones at one point were Neanderthals. Neanderthals were big and muscular, kind of like NFL players. They didn’t have a brain as big as Sapiens, but they made up for it in strength. How, then, did Sapiens survive? It was language. Language is the best gift ever given to man. Without language, we would not be alive right now. With language, people were able to communicate. They could signal to each other if a threat were approaching, but even other animals could do that. Sapiens could tell where the predator was, where it was going if it was in a pack or not, or even its Instagram ID.

Obviously, Sapiens were superior to Neanderthals, but without one gift, without one tiny part of the brain, without the best stroke of luck anyone will ever have, we would have been punier than chimpanzees, gorillas, or monkeys. If Gorillas got language, they would easily wipe out humans. Take Gorrila Grod from DC comics. We should not think of ourselves as above them or more sophisticated than them, because things like jobs or social status don’t matter to them; just that their belly stays full. In the vast world, the other animals only care about survival; as you can see, elephants are surviving, and so are sloths.