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RE: Tree of Life: The Primal Trichromacy: Colour vision
Hello @mobbs
Certainly great that we are coming to the end of this series.
With many distinctive features and the phenomenon of trichromacy not being unique to us, I wonder what distinguishes us from other creatures? Perhaps, the answer to this wonderment of mine would unfold as you round up with this series.
Thanks for such a detailed blog post.
Regards
@eurogee of @euronation and @steemstem communities
Well, to be clear there ARE many things that make us unique, but they work as a combination. For example, a rat isn't unique for having fur, but thousands of other animals lumped together into a group are. But then you might find an exception, a reptile with fur or something - but its different on so many other levels that it doesn't fit into the group.
What makes us a species is usually a collection of features, and that's why it becomes so hard to classify
Thanks for being part of this long journey!
Quite clearer now✌️✌️
There is one thing that makes us unique: the pimp. In nature there are myriad ways of having sex, and humans undertake almost all of them, from the gang rapes of Right Whales, to the monogamy of Terns. We are not only a hypersexual species, like Bonobo and Dolphin, whose females can instigate sex at will (unlike most sexual animals that have a specific season), but the most hypersexual vertebrate. In all that plethora of sexy time, no other animal has a pimp, madam, matchmaker, or priest to sanctify their unions.
I wrote a tripartite series of posts, starting with Tricks of the Trade, that goes into more detail.
Logical response.. Thanks