Man is an animal
For some people, it will come as a shock, but man is an animal.
A large percentage of people don't accept it, or only in theory. But to understand how our love life or politics works, you really need to study humans as an animal species, in conjunction with other animals.”
We humans see ourselves as exceptional beings, fundamentally different from other animals. But over the past fifty years, scientists have gathered increasing evidence that points to the intelligence of countless non-human species. Break like that seesaw crows cut off small twigs to fish insect larvae from tree trunks. Octopuses solve puzzles and shield the entrance to their army by placing rocks in front of them.
So there is no doubt about the impressive cognitive abilities of many animal species. But is this about more than instinctive processes that are based solely on the urge to survive and procreate? What's going on in animals? Like us, they feel sadness and want to have fun. Rats show sympathy, orcas mourn their dead and monkeys protest injustice. Scientists discover that other species also have a complex emotional life. Human fears also come from the animal kingdom A human child who loses her mother is afraid, just like a porcupine or giraffe child. Behind this fear is an evolutionary fact: a lost baby porcupine does not survive in the wild. People therefore benefit from separation anxiety, to survive.
