We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.
We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.
Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.
At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.
Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals.
With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.
We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.
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