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Humanss
(iconosphere entry)

Humans are a land-dwelling mammal. 

Many people view humanss as intellegent, while many others do not.

According to the late, great philosopher/futurist Douglas Noel Adams
"Man considers himself intellegent becasue of his many accomplishments,
cities, roads, and war for example." (not an exact quote)

Man is purported to an ape-decended hominid, originating in Africa
some 4 million years ago. One of the earliest anestors of Man, Lucy,
is reputed to have said (after finding nothing new going on), "Come 
on kids! We're out of here!".  Some several million years later,
humans (as currently disputed as well as supported) split into several
off shoots "Homo Neanderthalis" (now pronounced "Neandertall" after 
the region where "the bones were found" (refer to "The Hero with
A Thousdand Faces by Joseph Campbell), "Homo Habilis" (Greek: "Able man"),
as well as Homo Australopiticus (Greek: Southern man), etc.

Regardless, as one French philosopher during the 1960's put it:

   "Even if the [atomic] war wipes out all the people
    on the Earth but the most remote tribe in New Guinie,
    still over 85% of all Huaman Genetic material would
    be preserved". (not an exact quote)

Many philsophers have studied man and concluded many things:

The mathematician/futurist Larry Niven has remarked (in a work
of science fiction) that dolphins may well refer to man as 
"walkers" (as opposed to "swimmers").

The noted philosopher/skeptic Robert Ingersol has said that "a
just God is the greatest work of man". This remark (while
philosophically meaningful) throws much confusion on the so-called
"origin" problem that continues in the debate as to "who 
created who". Many theologians maintain that "God created Man"
(some even going so far as to say "in his [God's] own image").
While many biologists maintain that man is the result of an
almost 4 billion (ie, four thousand million) year long process
of random (but ordered) evolution. Others are of considerably
different people, the Navajoh Indians of North America maintain
that man, women, animals, and all of the world, including the
universe, spirits, and the various gods, were created by the
"yeii" (or "first people"). While still others point to the
possible "seeding" of the earth from outerspace (either from
proto-life from the cometary belt beyond the Pluton Region 
a theory usually attributed to Fred Hoyle or possibly from
a visiting race of extraterrestriasls).

A Feminist (possibly an early proto-guerrila-girl of the North 
American Planteau) remarked, "A woman needs a man as much as 
a fish needs a bicycle.". While, many who study such things, 
say (as did Douglas Noel Adams), if we should know what was 
meant by such things as this, then "We would know much".

And sow the lively debate continus.
    
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