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What makes homo sapiens "human"?

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Andya Primanda
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08-03-2004 4:10 AM 		Reply to: Message 105 by lfen
08-02-2004 1:29 PM

Re: participation in imaginary reality unique to homo sap?
Actually, given that Homo neanderthalensis may have some kind of religious thinking [they burying their dead & adorning with them flowers for example] I wouldn't count a shared imaginary world as unique to H. sapiens.
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Of course, this can go further. Who can say that Homo erectus individuals didn't have a shared imagination about how a proper flake-knife should be? Or whether baboons do not have some kind of common ideology within their troops?
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