jordan179

First of all, we are no longer purely genetic creatures, we are also memetic creatures. In the last 10,000 years, our memetic evolution has outstripped, and to a large extent taken over from, our merely genetic evolution. This means that what should be most important to us is being intellectually like ourselves. And, in intellectual terms, we have more in common with an African Gray parrot than either of us does with a shrew or a sparrow. Via Animals, Aliens and Human Destiny