it's interesting that you wrote about this issue. i've been thinking about it off and on lately. my most recent observation, in a nutshell: it is only our ability to control our animal instincts that has allowed humans to develop the societies we know today (and hence survive/dominate). other animals must allow their animal instincts to rule in order to survive.
Actually, there's been a lot of evidence to show that animals themselves have their own societal rules that are not due to pure instincts. There have been cases where animals bred in captivity in zoos or brought up by humans, when reintroduced to wild groups of their species, cannot become socialized. Also, there are other cases where wild-bred animals are introduced to zoo groups and the reverse happens. If it was pure instinct, there wouldn't be that higher level of societal rules.
Although typically this tends to happen in higher species (gorillas, wolves, etc.), this supports my idea that humans really aren't that different than animals - we're just a bit more advanced in some of the areas that are already inherent in other animals at a lower level.
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Although typically this tends to happen in higher species (gorillas, wolves, etc.), this supports my idea that humans really aren't that different than animals - we're just a bit more advanced in some of the areas that are already inherent in other animals at a lower level.
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