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I've heard the tools things before. Usually by older people. So it was definitely taught at some point.
There's been numerous attempts to separate humans from other animals, various skills or behaviours said to demonstrate how we're different and better and one by one each of those have been found in other species. Therefore I propose that the thing that actually separates humans from animals is that need to differentiate ourselves. No other species does that!
Have they found an "animal" capable of complex maths and philosophy yet? I submit the difference isn't a whole category like tool usage, but the complexity of it.
A lot of species can do various things better, qualitative superiority just doesn't cut it. We wanted a clear line that would prove we're not animals.
Well that's never going to happen because we are animals.
Exactly.