Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uni…

Carl Sagan
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Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
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