Everyday Canvas

The Human Species: Successful or Not

Do you think we humans are successful as species? If so, what aspects of humans have made us a successful species?

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We, humans, are the only living things that have evolved through learning and discoveries. With that endeavor, we are successful. Other species go through life by adjusting to the existing conditions of the area they live in.

Humans, because of their evolutionary successes, have developed relatively larger brains with cortexes and temporal lobes that make abstract reasoning, language, problem-solving, tool use, culture, and sociality possible. These assets may also be present in some animal species but to a much lesser degree. If we weren’t successful as species, our numbers in existence wouldn’t have been 7.6 billion.

Having said that, humans, also, are depleting and harming the resources of the earth, the only place we can live in, and shaking up the natural balance that might put us and other species in peril. That, I think, takes away from the success we might have enjoyed up to the present millennium.