Thoughts About Humans

I often think about humans.

We are interesting primates.

I find animal communication so very interesting.

Studies have shown that apes primarily communicate to satisfy their needs and are generally unable to piece together linguistic concepts that go beyond satisfying their immediate needs.

I wonder if humans are like this to.

Then I learned in this random documentary on ape language I watched on youtube that humans have mutated DNA that gives us powerful mutant brains that are capable of piecing together language into more abstract ideas because of our increased memory and ability to project into the future.

I think that perhaps it is this ability to project into the future that enables us to project ourselves into someone else's shoes and feel empathy more effectively than our primate cousins.