#this is not coherent but fascinating how hard my prof teaches that no organism is superior and YET

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thinking abt the guy that was interviewing my field crew abt why we were interested in the intersection of bio anth and paleontology and how everyone was excitedly talking abt how interesting it is to see adaptations and behavior that humans have in other animals, and then me completely killing the vibe when i started enthusiastically talking abt how i thought the opposite direction was more interesting, like how i find viewing humans as animals and looking at what we share with other organisms like, coming FROM other organisms via evolutionary biology is way more interesting and grounds us more in the family tree, how we got all those adaptations and behavior FROM them and everyone looking at me like im deranged

#like bro we are in bio anth how are you still uncomfortable calling yourself an animal #like oh yeah we’re primates but god forbid we go any further back in that evolutionary tree or dare compare ourselves to ANY other taxa #this is not coherent but fascinating how hard my prof teaches that no organism is superior and YET