The Uniqueness Of Being A Human Being: Something's Screwy Somewhere!

There's just something really special about Homo sapiens relative to all the other animal and plant life forms we share Planet Earth with. Well actually every life form is special in one way or another*, but still humans stand out from the crowd. Many people will attribute that to the alleged ‘fact' that we were created in God's image, although IMHO the concept of a supreme, supernatural creator being carries so much dead (philosophical baggage) weight as to have as close to zero credibility as makes no odds. Therefore, I suggest something's screwy somewhere.

Go for some brief examples of human uniqueness, all mammals, human beings are real, but only up - we are bipedal. Why is it so? When the train of bipedal walking had very survival-of-the-most suitable evolutionary significance, I would expect that the foot-on-two-meter section to be distributed much more than it is.

We are also top of the pop when it comes to IQ, and a very large margin compared to our primate ancestors, or even dolphins and whales, not to mention the family Corvidae (eg crows). Again, if extreme intellectual ability had some kind of paramount importance in terms of Darwinian natural selection, one would expect we would be rivals in some animal species that compete with us for a chess grandmaster. Unfortunately, there is no species, except the human one, never lay claim to that title. Artificial intelligence is another matter, but not too relevant in the context of the here and now.