| Being Human cannot simply be a result of a superior intelect as that would result in many "retarted" people being classed as non human. Moreover much of our wisdom is simply what we've been told not what we have actually deducted ourselves.
Although we are a result of our genetics and so that answer is true it is not the whole answer. A large part of what we are is determined by our society. ie the difference between a dog and a wolf has less to do with genetics than with the environment in which they have been raised for decades. Similarily although our genetics (which result in a larger brain) is a large determinate of who and what we are, humans are also the result of a social evolution that has allowed us to take advantage of our physical and genetic traits. A large brain without any concept of how to use it is effectivly no different than not having that brain. We learn how to use our biology from the social structure we find ourselves in. |