Dumb bitches like this piss me off.

[CrAzYT]

It seems there is a large debate about whether humans are animals or not...

Humans are animals, no scientist would disagree with that statement. A human being (scientific name: homo sapien sapien, and yes, I meant to type sapien twice) is a part of the great ape family. Our ability to build sophisticated tools to help us proceed in life, and make life "easier," does not separate us from the mammalian family.

I'm not sure where this confusion stems from. If you know anything about basic evolution, you would understand that our ancestors did not have the brain capacity for reasoning as we do today - this was brought forth by a genetic mutation that was passed onwards during procreation. This is why evolution is not thought to "flow" as Darwin said, but is more "punctuated," which is what made Stephen Jay Gould famous. If a mutation is not passed on, evolution does not occur.

Not to mention, at one time we had two distinct great apes that were "aware," and had the ability for higher reasoning. This was indeed the homo sapien and the homo neanderthal. The Neanderthals were highly intelligent hominids that happened to die out for reasons unknown. So any claim that we are distinct and unique, one of a kind, is only in reference to the time period. In the past, we were not so unique in the animal kingdom...

So, whoever said that Mike Willoughby needs a further education needs to check in with their own. Human beings are multi-cellular animals that are not-so-different from other members of the great ape family, or to be more precise, Hominidae has chimps, orangutans, gorillas, and humans.