Aside from speech, large brains and opposable thumbs, what other traits are unique to humans?
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Very little is unique to humans.  Most of what we consider "unique" is only something we do more of than other animals.\n\nFor instance, we're the smartest animals, but hardly the only smart ones.  Our brains are large, but the brains of many whales are larger.  Opposable thumbs are found in the other great apes at least.  Speech of a sort may be found in other animals, we can't really rule it out.\n\nSome of the answers received thus far are wrong.\n\nChimpanzees feel shame and blush.\n\nIt's not clear that other animals don't have philosophy or religion (how exactly would you tell?)\n\nOther animals seem self aware, or at least recognize that what they see in the mirror is "them".\n\nEmpathy is recorded from primates.\n\nChimpanzees have morals in as much as there are behaviors frowned upon socially amongst them.\n\nAnd as for bipedal, all birds, kangaroo, and kangaroo mice are bipedal.\n\nI sometimes suspect the only unique thing about humans is the arrogance to think we're unique.  :-)
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physically, their eyes and smile. personality,honesty, kindness, and respectfulness
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good looking\nunderstanding\ngood cook\nintelligent\nworking\ncreative\nloving nature\ncompromising\naccept things easily\nrespect his other relations like parents, siblings, Friends\nobeying\ndon't have habit of asking the reason\nalways yes & never no
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intelligence, maturity, attitude, looks
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Nice teeth\nThick hair\nWell manicured nails\nBit of a muscle\nGenerally clean and tidy looking
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one major characteristic is electrical conductivity.\npropensity to super conductivity.\nMelting/triple point.\nsolubility\ndensity\nbulk modulus\nheat capacity\nferromagnetism
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Neatness, Politeness, Sense of humor, not being a Noob.
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Excellent manners, a sense of decency, good character and high intelligence. These things are crucial, with all other factors paling in comparison. Looks will change over the years; a strongly developed sense of ethics won't.
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These scientists say brain size and thyroid/sex hormone metabolism differences.  You may also be looking for things like complex tool use, language/abstract thought and copulation in private, typically with one lifelong partner.\n\nStill, I thought the information below and link were interesting.\n\nIt is now well accepted that intelligence is dependent on brain size, and in fact the brain of an ape is approximately a third of the size a human’s brain. This means “factors” known to affect brain size might be involved in the different intelligence observed, not only between human and non-human primates, but also throughout human evolution. And that is the premise for the work of H.R. Correia, S.C. Balseiro and M.L. de Areia, a group pf Portuguese academics from the Department of Anthropology, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.\n\nThe team of researchers propose that the differences observed between apes and humans, and also between different hominids, result from distinct metabolisms in thyroid and sex steroids hormones, such as testosterone (the hormone responsible for male secondary sex characteristics) and estrogens (responsible for female secondary sex characteristics).
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Human brain - our capability to think, problem solve and communicate.\n\nIf you compare human brain volume with other animals, we have the biggest (and most complex/developed) brain in relation to the body mass.  \n\nIt is our brain that gave us a distinct advantage to survive natural selection.  We have never been the strongest animal, but we're the smartest and most resourceful by far.  If not for our ability to adapt and invent, we’d have been hunt to extinction by other stronger carnivores.
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Yes, and both their hands and feet have opposable thumbs. \n\nQuoting from the source at the link below:\n"There are four categories of thumb movements determined by the degree of independence of the thumb. They are:\n1) Non-opposable thumbs. Examples: tarsiers, marmosets\n2) Pseudo-opposable thumbs. Examples: all prosimians, Cebidae\n3) Opposable thumbs. Examples: Old World monkeys, great apes, humans\n4) Opposable, comparatively long thumbs. Examples: Hylobatidae\n\nSource: Ankel-Simons, Friderun. Primate Anatomy. Academic Press, 2000."\n\nMost primates have opposable thumbs in their feet (we're an exception) and many also in their hands. However, there are monkeys with reduced thumbs, such as the South American spider monkeys, with only 4 developed fingers in each hand (their feet _do_ have opposable thumbs). This is visible in this photograph:\nhttp://www.ejphoto.com/images_AZ/AZ_SpiderMonkey01.jpg
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Not one specific person I could pick, just characteristics. I would like to be more patient, selfless, motivated, kind and thoughtful. But hey if you identify things, at least you can work on them.
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Above all else - honesty, sincerity, selflessness, good work ethic, good sense of humour, caring and sharing......oh and not already married
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Brains, humor, responsibility, affection, financially secure. Good looks are nice, too, but not a priority.
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Muscular, tall, black hair, blue eyes, intelligent, funny, sensitive, not a cocky jock, hopefully guitar player, he likes to read, is thoughtful, etc.
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physical:  eyes, chest, ass mental: intelligence personality: dont bullshit ambitious  dressing:  skirts
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Theyhave leaves.\n\nTheyhave trunks.\n\nThey grow in the ground.\n\nThey need water to live.\n\nThey photosynthesise.\n\nThey live only on the planet Earth\n\nHow many characteristics do you want listed?