• Question: What makes us humans?

    Asked by Ethan09 to Emma, Monica, Sebastian, Sinead, Thomas on 11 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sinead Loughran

      Sinead Loughran answered on 11 Nov 2016:

      Pursuing knowledge for its own sake (among other things). As far as we know, we are the only creatures trying to understand where we came from.

    • Photo: Sebastian Gornik

      Sebastian Gornik answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      This is a tricky one. Scientifically, what makes us humans is everything that is unique to our species, and distinguished us from others, like speech, deep self-awareness, etc. But I think there is a more to being a human than this, but it is hard to describe in words. History, for examples, is also what makes us humans.

    • Photo: Emma Roycroft

      Emma Roycroft answered on 16 Nov 2016:

      I think it is having a conscience

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