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The only animal that invented therapy to cope with the brain it evolved.

means A member of the species Homo sapiens — the upright, big-brained primate that talks, worries, and builds civilizations.

from Traces back through Latin humanus to humus, meaning 'earth' or 'ground' — so human likely originally meant something like 'earthly being' or 'of the soil,' possibly in contrast to the gods above. The same root gives us 'humble' and 'humility,' which fits nicely: to be human is, etymologically, to be down-to-earth.

shared DNA
98.8 percent identical to chimpanzees
brain cost
burns 20 percent of body energy idling
design flaw
chokes and breathes through the same tube
standout trait
only species that cries from emotion, not pain
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