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What is the difference between humans and animals?

1. Labor

The fundamental difference between man and animal, if we further divide human labor into creative labor and repetitive labor, and can be further found that creative labor is the fundamental force that separates man from the animal. Animals, like man, have to survive, and therefore have to work for the means necessary for its survival. However, the act of survival of an animal is not labor, but only an activity. This survival activity of the animal is instinctive, or genetically determined.

In this low-level activity, although there is no lack of some wonderful performance, but none of them can be compared with human labor. This is because human labor is a conscious and creative activity; animal behavior is an unconscious, conditioned activity. This fundamental difference determines that human beings have the prospect of continuous development, while animals have only the possibility of change.

2, IQ, will use tools

While these animals also have, the most essential difference between humans and animals should lie in the ability to control, the ability to control the mind, the reason why human beings are able to become the most powerful creatures on the planet, mainly depends on the ability of human beings to have a certain level of control, rather than relying on the desire to do all kinds of things entirely by desire and nature, like animals.

In fact, the so-called mental control ability is also not to be swayed by their own desires and nature, and make a small profit to lose the big picture of things, a person IQ and then high, if the mental control ability is not good, then the IQ can not be utilized, but generally evaluated as a high IQ, have a more far-reaching vision, able to see what you do whether it's sensible.

3, thinking

Human beings, in addition to playing their roles in society, will also realize their own thinking and exploration. When you lie on your bedside and read a book, you think about the world, and at the same time you think about yourself, realizing the exploration of yourself, and you actually realize the transcendence of yourself.

Extended Information:

Animal taxonomists classify animals according to their various characteristics (morphology, cellularity, genetics, physiology, ecology, and geographical distribution, etc.), and categorize them in order into six major classes, i.e., phylums, orders, orders, families, genera, and species.

Human beings have advanced minds and therefore create culture, language, art, and morality. Culture is set in the context of human development, language is elevated in the context of development, and art is a form produced to express the merits of both. Only morality, which is not a set goal or an idea that humans must follow, is a principle of human development, the only thing that actually distinguishes humans from animals.

Scientists have categorized the existing animals known to mankind into two main groups: invertebrates and vertebrates. Scientists have identified more than 46,900 vertebrates. These include fish animals such as carp and yellowtail, reptiles such as snakes and lizards, amphibians such as frogs and dollfish, birds, and mammals such as red pandas.