Parental care, satisfaction, friendship, compassion, and grief didn’t just suddenly appear with the emergence of modern humans. All began their journey in pre-human beings. Our brain’s provenance is inseparable from other species’ brains in the long cauldron of living time. And thus, so is our mind.

Carl Safina
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Parental care, satisfaction, friendship, compassion, and grief didn’t just suddenly appear with the emergence of modern humans. All began their journey in pre-human beings. Our brain’s provenance is inseparable from other species’ brains in the long cauldron of living time. And thus, so is our mind.

Our minds may be unique and different from those of other animals, but we are still animals; we still have the same drives and emotions as our fellow animals. For instance, we will all feel loneliness and sadness if a pet dies. In fact, our own human minds are still highly similar to those of apes and other primates.

Evolution has given us all some powerful biological instincts that remain unchanged from those of our ancestors from millions of years ago.

Source: Beyond Words: What Animals Think And Feel

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