Can you give your opinion on how us humans exist/are shaped by plants, animals, and nature around us?

[Anonymous]

Like how do animals, plants, and nature shape us as the humans we are today?

[Kaneki05]

Interesting question with a millions of answers. Plants is more obvious as we directly evolved how we breathe according to them in fact Oxygen is highly unstable and isn't optimal to adapt around but because plants did we had to follow.
Plants offered us life, protection and shelter along with the most basic of tools but most important as without wood many things wouldn't be as they are now.
Then of course drugs, drugs from plants has effected us the most in society you can see a major difference between humans who drink to those who don't. This is not all bad so don't let that example fool you. A good example would be coffee, there is a clear coloration between caffeine and more productivity.

Animals don't really shape or effect us anymore unlike they did through our long history of evolution. Animals now are mostly useless due to technology and that we've advanced beyond them by a bit. That's not say animals are inferior there is still many creatures that possess unique skills we just don't have but there are labs trying to recreate such stuff for ourselves.
In the past they mostly effected us been by the threats, been challenges, we used to hunt them out the thrill and trail of it. This adapted humans to be stronger but that's been long lost over time. As there is no need to hunt them anymore they are no longer threats.

Humans only exist and do the things we do because we are replicating things we saw in the wild and most importantly going against those things. If we never went against such things we wouldn't be in our positions now.
So in reality we were shaped by rebelling nature while also taking whatever we can from it.

[Asker]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Kaneki05]

My pleasure. I could talk forever on science stuff and like when people ask such questions.

[Asker]

The reason I asked is because I saw this quote from Ubuntu philosophy (a type of philosophy from africa I think) that “a person is because of others” and by others, they are referring to not just other humans, but also plants, animals, and nature around us. So I was just curious to know how animals for example make us who we are

[Kaneki05]

That philosophy is just simply true. Everything around us, makes us who were are. Animals are very much things we learnt from, we learn from others as in anything. You show a kid a bird they now understand flying is thing, you show them a fish they now know swimming is a thing.
Each animal will show a perspective of things we aren't capable of doing and us as humans are gonna try to do those things.

It's super possible that if we never saw things that could fly we would never of tried, therefore planes would cease to be. Everything is taught from something, even instinct is impacted on learning from our ancestors. Which their instincts would of been impacted by further ancestors and down evolution to species that have long pasted.

[Asker]

Wow I enjoyed reading this!!!

I love how you brought up the connection between birds and airplanes. Airplanes were built by knowing about flying, which birds were able to show us! It’s crazy…if we didn’t have any animals/insects that flew, would we ever think about the possibility of flying? Thank you soooo much!!! You really taught me something so valuable 💕

[Kaneki05]

We still might of but yeah all possible we wouldn't, and the way we would've would have looked totally different. It's the butterfly effect as we would have developed wingspan differently, and well wingspan just that word it's self wouldn't exist.

Really glad you did :)

[SnowedIn]

There are entire sections of libraries for this! And the internet. And you ask on GaG?

[Asker]

I know there are! The problem is they’re too long and I kind of just want a simplified answer

[abc3643]

Well, if we eat too many of them, our shape becomes rather round.

[Asker]

😂😂 u r funnyyy