Are humans higher life forms than animals?

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No. The only logical answer is no.

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I guess humans do run less on instinct than most other animals, but why should that make us superior? Those animals have their own evolutionary traits that make them successful, and we have ours.

Are even if we go by intelligence, orcas are a very intelligent species. They can devise new strategies to hunt, thus not relying on instinct. The rest of the great apes are extremely intelligent as well.

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I don see why having language makes you a superior species.

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I don see why having language makes you a superior species.

Language gives us the ability to utilize knowledge well beyond each individual's personal experience in both time and space.

I still don't see why that makes us a superior species, though it undoubtedly helped our species grow to a population of 7 Billion.