Is there a general % of human similaries and human differences?  Example, our bodies are all made up of the same properties, yet our indvidual look is unique.  Our knowledge and understanding on many subjects is the same, yet we each have unique knowledge and understanding.\n\nI am trying to make the case that each human being is unique, unlike any other human being.  It is this uniqueness that sets us apart and is the esscense for being alive, to express fully our uniqueness.  In today's world we focus on the similarities which are vast, but if we focused on the small % of ourselves that is unique we connect to our purpose, confidence and personal power.\n\nI just need a number that has meaning to speak about that small part of us that is unique.\n\nSmiliar to eash snowflake being totally unique, but mostly similar.\n\nAny thoughts?\n\nThanks so much!
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the difference in DNA between humans is SUPER tiny, like in the hundreths of a percent different.  humans are approximately .001% different
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Everybody is uniqu in there own way.  If you dont want to copy anyone in the world, well, its possible, but hard.  I think everyone should just be themselve's, and possible start a new trend.  Your trend.  Good luck!
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i think a lot of people who want to be totally present cannot be because we are humans that way.  we strive for it, of course, but nobody would could be completely that.  even the greatest, most intuned people has to think about the past and the futrue.
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"Humans represent just one tiny, largely fortuitous, and late-arising twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life."\n\nI assume it is the phrase "largely fortuitous" that Wells objects to. Arguably, this opinion is more philosophical than scientific (though it's also arguable that it isn't). Still, one phrase in one quote in an interview that is peripheral to the main text hardly seems worth getting overexcited about. It doesn't mean that the treatment of evolution, or of human evolution, in that textbook is not accurate.
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Can we learn from the sages through "copy and paste"?\nMy point is :\n"Mimicry is the best form of flattery."\n"Effective mimicry is often a key element in the Darwinian struggle..."\nDoes quoting scripture make one less intelligent?\nCan we learn from others?
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Wow, this could almost be asked under Philosophy, too.  There is so much I could say in answer to this provocative line of thought, but maybe I will just keep it simple for once in my life:\nIf we think of men and women simply as the two inseparable halves of one whole, without both of which being in healthy existence, there would be no human species, then the question of equality becomes moot.\nYes, each half has by nature been given strengths and genetic "jobs" to fulfill, both necessary to the ultimate survival of the species.\nOn top of that we have been given awesome intellect and deep emotional and spiritual reservoirs to allow us an existence raised above the mere day to day survival necessities of food, shelter and procreation.\nSo, my answer to your question is that we are equal by our natures.  Different, but no less equal. We are partners, not combatants.
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Why do we say that human's are of different "races"?  Seems to me we are all running at the same speed and heading towards the same destination ............. If I must place myself in a race, I am triracial, where would I fit?
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Your attentions are tuned in. Happens to all. Not all aware of it. It's like why do we guess? WE like to feel a bond that will get us thru to next stage. Having the same environment much of the time helps.Why do we bump into same people? You're like the same river. It's not magick, it's fun and comes from comfort and higher shares purpose(vision) and if you have sex of course All You Are merges, like on that tv show. They say people start to look like their partners more and more. We become/ whatever/ we pay attention to. S/He lights up your life.
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a- multiple personalities (true ones, not fakers) are a one in a million chance.\nb- since we dont understand the nature of a multiple (are they seperate spirits?  we know they have no knowledge of each other, and that even brain waves are different, but are they even the same person? [the body does not make the man, but the spirit]) this question cannot be answered by the human mind
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that is so nice question.it is so hard to answer this question.ok what about this one.mind is a part of people,but people are a part of mind?
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Hi Maddy, I am taking a few moments this morning to reduce stress, pre-wedding jitters, not really nerves, just the usual worries of everything going correctly, as planned. lol \n\nSo, here I am anwering one of your great questions! ;-)  I too have often mused on how the blind or others who have lost a sense, manage to do things, normal everyday things those who have all five senses take for granted on a daily basis. I have mused on what it would be like to be blind. You see, one of my daughters had a knife put out her left eye when she was six. It was a horrific experiance for her and also her father and I. While she has not been completely blind sense birth, we have always been very worried, and sensitive of the worry she may lose sight in her one remaining eye. She was able to 'keep' her damaged eye, but she is basically 90% blind, only able to see shadows and blurred color in it. So, you can imagine this is something I have thought about a great deal. \n\nI read the answers you received when I first clicked here. Bonacua B is as close to an honest interpretation, or considered response than any other. Now, imagination does not require sight. They 'way' they imagine things will be different than those with sight, but they still will have dreams and imagination. Blind folks are as capable of those with sight of being able to be imaginative, innovative, creative and otherwise intuitive. They are in a unique position to provide an alternate view, which can be very impressive. When we are in a 'think tank' it is of best interest to implement as diverse a group as possible. When we keep the group diverse we are able to obtain a uniquely cohesive thought process which can produce great innovative and creative 'out of the box' thinking. This will enable the group to come up with a tremendously increased measure of ideas and concepts. When we place a group of non diverse members into a position of requiring innovative and creative ideas, they are limited to only simular processes as they all have the same abilities and therefor are limited. \n\nThe blind may not be able to see 'color' but color has more than a visual affect. Color is uniquely viewed by each individual with sight. Men and women see colors differently. There are scientific studies which demonstrate these differences between the sexes when it comes to seeing color. The blind are able to imagine colors by using verbal stimuli to create a visual concept. Colors also create emotions, blue is calming, red is stimulating, yellow is comforting, black can be either rage, or blankness, grey is dismal, etc. By utilizing all the elements of color the blind are able to concepulize these and form their own unique 'vision' of color. \n\nEmotions are very strong elements, and they are created from many differing sourses. When we are able to utilize all of our resourses we are then able to acheive our highest potentials. The blind are not any different in this as those who see. \n\nThose who are born blind do NOT increase other senses to 'compensate' for the lost sense. Studies have shown that the other senses which are seeminly increased, are available for the sighted to acheive those inhanced heighths. We ALL have the capasity to use our senses to a maximine capasite, the same as the blind, we just don't do it. When we are trained to use our senses to the highest levels we are able to acheive seeminly spiritual elements within our abilities to minipulate them. Most people just do not work on increasing their senses to the degree of their full capasity. The blind are trained to do so. So, it is not an ability to obtain any higher degree of use in remaining senses, above the ability of any seeing person, it is just they work at acheiving these 'high' degree of developed senses. \n\nI firmly believe the born blind are as able as any other to imagine and dream. The way this is manifested may be different, of course it
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'I see your point.  I hope that most people just see this as a way to entertain themselves 'cause even the most sincere people don't always know what the heck they are talking about.  I send a question out (rarely) hoping someone may actually have an idea on relationships that I have never thought of...something original...but it never happens.  On that thought; did you know that 98% of our "free" thinking is regurgitated?  Either we have thought it all before or it is someone else's thinking.  This means only 2% of our thinking day is original.
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What is normal? we all have things about us that make us different. That is why we are all unique, because we are our own individuals. I would NEVER want to be labeled, and definitely not labeled as normal.
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They say that everyone has a twin somewhere in the world.\n\nThen again they also say that no two fingerprints or snowflakes are exactly the same, so by that logic, I think that we all have someone else on this planet that looks almost identical to us, but noone is exactly like us.
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I appreciate diversity because I think that we can all learn from other people who are not like ourselves if it is positive. I do not appreciate people who have a need to force their beliefs on others with a barrage of negative comments and never offering anything positive. Diversity is wonderful if it is positive and done in a way to bring people together, but diversity can also be used as a wedge to drive people apart.
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I would have to disagree with David to some extent. To evolve into a different species we would have changed enough so that different subpopulations of humans could no longer interbreed. Humans display a range of social and technological aptitudes and capacities throughout earth, the majority of which haven't even heard a dialtone let alone participated in any form of advanced travel or communications processes. However, none of these people are incabable of doing so if provided with the appropriate education needed. This suggest that there hasn't been any change in our molecular (genetic) makeup that provides us with these advanced technologies -- which is where the changes are needed to happen for biological evolution to occur. Even if you wanted to argue that social evolution has distinguished industrialized man from our primitive brethern enough to warrant a new species distinction, I would argue that we still haven't met one of the key requirements for doing so, there are no subgroups of humans on earth that are incapable of interbreeding with one another. Until that happens, no we haven't evolved from Homo sapiens sapiens to Homo sapiens futura. \n\nHowever, we will evolve into someting different! This is a certainty -- as long as our species doesn't become extint before that can happen! But don't expect that Homo sapiens will evolve into just one different species. Depending on what our environment(s) dictates, humans could evolve into numerous other species. Through the process of evolution, it is inevitable, but at the same time it is not predictable.
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It's kind of like the difference in the glass is half-empty or the glass is half-full. Some folks prefer to express themselves in terms of differences. Other people choose similarities. \n\nLogically if two things are the same then they have the same differences from everything that is not the objects under question. So the "same thing" must have the "same difference[s]".