Does Common Descent Dehumanize Us?

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This Veritas forum is highly relevant to the question. See how Ed and I handle things differently.

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What Does it Mean to be Human?

The video for the Veritas Forum from Tuesday night, at Cal Poly SLO with Dr. Ed Himelblau and Dr. S Joshua Swamidass was posted. At least part of what it means to be human is to be lost in the grand questions.

What Does it Mean to be Human? | Josh Swamidass & Ed Himelblau

Dr. Himelblau is the artist for the entertaining strip, the Cartoon Lab. He argued we should resist the notion that we are any different than humans. This cartoon is not a commentary on his talk, but a pretty entertaining and incisive example of his cartoon work.

This article, also, gets straight to the point:

More Than Just Apes