Things that distinguish us from lesser species:

[ohiosmith]

Martinis.

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Not voting Republican

[BarenakedLady]

2. oral sex

:hide:

[Dragonbreathp9d]

3. yes please

... o, wait, what were we talking about again?

[Connonym]

4. lol

does that make giraffes higher species? I heard that the giraffes really like the oral.

[flvegan]

5. It's their long, deep throats.

:hide:

[Connonym]

6. and have you seen the tongues on those things?

:evilgrin:

[flvegan]

7. You're going to get this locked, aintcha?

[Connonym]

12. Today, I feel like a shit starter :-P

:spank:

[ohiosmith]

18. Today!?

[ohiosmith]

8. High jacker!

[BarenakedLady]

10. ...

:evilgrin:

[skygazer]

13. Not even close

[Deep13]

9. So there are lesser species?

:shrug:

[asthmaticeog]

11. Opposable thumbs, the use of cutlery...

and seemingly almost nothing else. :(

[hfojvt]

26. no, possums have thumbs

the second thing is that we are capable of controlling our sexual urges.

Now you might be an exception, but don't drag me into your private hell.

[asthmaticeog]

31. Who says possums are a lesser species?

Fucking bigot.

[liontamer]

14. no such thing as a lesser species

evolution is the process of species diversification, not a scheme for hierarchical improvement. :hi:

[EstimatedProphet]

15. Well, in that case...

'lesser' could imply less diversification over time. For example, yeasts. It's not a judgement of yeast's worth, it's how they have stayed basically the same since the Cambrian era.

[ohiosmith]

16. Precisely.

:hi:

[liontamer]

19. homo sapiens have stayed virtually the same since they came into existence

if there is dramatic change within a species you end up with a new species. As such there are many species of yeast even though there still exist a class of organisms that we call yeast. Just as there is still a class mammalia even though there are many different species within it.

Diversity is not a function of any given organism, but a description of how many different types of organisms exist within an ecosystem.

[EstimatedProphet]

22. That's true

The main difference here being that protohumans arose approximately 3 million years ago, and yeasts arose about 2 1/2 billion years ago. Of course, the changes within species have been minimal over time for both groups, but the time periods are drastically different.

Also, I wasn't talking about diversity. But hey...

[Deep13]

20. That indicates the success of yeast's adaptations.

Yeats on the other hand is a different matter.

[EstimatedProphet]

30. Yeah, that fucker's dead.

[YankeyMCC]

53. dang, beat me to it nt

[redqueen]

17. Well hmm... we seem to like to shit where we eat.

:P

[hfojvt]

25. unlike, say

cows or dogs.

[redqueen]

38. just joking

yeah, i know... i suck at it

[liontamer]

37. oddly enough, so do yeast!

although they don't really have much choice usually.

[meegbear]

21. Toilet paper and coffee ...

2 items one cannot live without

[MrCoffee]

40. i feel slightly offended by this post.

[skygazer]

23. Serious answer

Music

[Deep13]

27. And symbolic language, spoken and written...

...even if the writings are only pictures on a wall.

[swag]

24. Roller Derby

[Deep13]

28. Bingo!

That must be it.

[Tyler Durden]

29. We ARE the lesser species.

If I were an Alien and had the power, I'd wipe us out and leave the dolphins in charge.

[ohiosmith]

35. Do you think dolphins would pay more for human free tuna?

[Tyler Durden]

36. After what we've done to THEM?

We'd be lucky if they didn't go straight to canned human.

Tastes like "SPAM" except it's so loaded with poisons it would be removed from the market as toxic.

[Deep13]

39. Okay, no one give nukes to T.D.

Are we all okay with that?

[Deep13]

41. **wrong place**

[Parche]

32. Lesser Species

"Human life strives ceaselessly to perfect itself, to gain ascendancy. But what of the lower forms of life? Is it not possible that they, too, are conducting experiments, and are at this moment on the threshold of deadly success?"


"When the yearning to gain ascendancy takes the form of a soulless, loveless struggle, the contest must end in unlovely defeat. For without love, drones can never be men, and men can only be drones."


:hi:

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[skygazer]

34. Grovelbots!

:rofl:

[Deep13]

42. The dominant "creatures" on Earth are bacteria.

They dominate in every sense of the word. There were here long before we were and will be here after we and all other large animals are gone. They live in hostile places where complex plants or animals could never exist. There are more e-coli in your digestive tract right now than than there have ever been humans on Earth.

[ohiosmith]

52. Maybe so. But can they make stickies?

[Orsino]

43. Classifying other species as "lesser." n/t

[ohiosmith]

46. :

:rofl:

[Heidi]

44. Arrogance. (nt)

[ohiosmith]

47. :

:rofl: :rofl:

[mikeytherat]

45. 7-11 red hot beaf-n-bean burritos

I mean, really - is there any other argument?

mikey_the_rat

[ohiosmith]

50. You win.

:applause:

[applegrove]

48. empathy

[Fire Walk With Me]

49. The capacity to either care for ourselves and the world, or to destroy it in one go

Animals aren't hypocrites.

[bamacrat]

51. We wipe our ass with paper.

[YankeyMCC]

54. Every time someone tries to pick something

we end up finding it being done by some other species who found a use or desire to do the same thing :shrug: So I'm not picking :) And as someone else said earlier, there's really no such thing as a lessor species.

Or course there is the whole Hedge Fund thing...that might be a safe bet on something that separates us from "other" species. ;)