• Question: What makes us human?

    Asked by anon-240764 to Tom, Rebecca, Emily, Elspeth, Ben, Antoine on 9 Mar 2020.
    • Photo: Ben Cropper

      Ben Cropper answered on 9 Mar 2020:

      We are featherless bipeds! (actually I don’t know)

    • Photo: Emily Goddard

      Emily Goddard answered on 10 Mar 2020:

      I think it’s belonging to the genus Homo — Homo sapiens are the only living species now, but in the past it included Neanderthals and other more primitive species which evolved into us!

    • Photo: Tom Dally

      Tom Dally answered on 10 Mar 2020: last edited 10 Mar 2020 1:53 pm

      Yep, Emily has it right! We belong to the genus (a group of closely-related species) Homo, which contains all of the Hominid species, like Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), hobbits (Homo floresiensis), and humans (Homo sapiens). But, it’s important to note that no species evolves *into* another species, we all just share common ancestors with one-another.

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