Categories of Human and Animal Life

Can we determine what separated humans and animals and define classification to better help humans understand their place in the animal kingdom hierarchy? One researcher plans on doing just that in the “What Makes Humans Unique” project. In fact in an online think tank the projects founder and principle investigator indicated that they were moving ahead with the project to answer just that question. It was later stated on the think tank that;
“This returns us to the approach and preparation involved in measuring and categorizing humans in the chain of living things.”
In my observations humans possess nearly all the abilities of the animal kingdom in some form and the only difference would be that. Abstractly I would say that “Humans possess all the upgrades of the previous organic models displayed” taking this analogy from that of the artificial intelligence and robotics, as each new model has more features.
But that only puts humans at the top of the “animal chart” not beyond it. Call them the “ultimate animal” but it is not fair to make them a separate classification nor should their (ego-centric driven passion cloud the issue) sense of entitlement warrant a new category above and beyond all else.
Where do you think that humans category lies? Do you consider yourself an animal? Do you consider yourself an intelligent being? Are you Super Human? What exactly is your place in the animal kingdom? Have you given this much thought? Think on this in 2006.
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