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What Does it Mean to be Human

The Human Origins Initiative wants to know what YOU think it means to be human! Submit your response, and it may be featured on this website or in our exhibition.

Responses seen here come both from this website and the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. We have had a wonderful outpouring of responses to this question, and we cannot feature every answer; in an effort to features as many as possible, we will be featuring new answers approximately everyh two weeks (so check back to see if you answer has been featured!).

Responses limited to 140 characters. Name and location are required. Image is optional.

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We are here to give life meaning
- Pedro, Fort Collins,CO
To be human is to be complex, beautiful, ecstatic, sad, and hopeful all at once.
- bobbie Coverman, Austin, Texas
it means we are self aware & inventive tool users with the skills to develop a fast evolving culture & unmatched ability to shape the world.
- Stuart Gregory, Bize-Minervois France
Entertaining your brother. ):
- John, Brazil
Awareness of being aware.
- MarceL Benn, Germany
To seek new knowledge, to explore the world around us and within us, to be a part of a whole, to speak, to feel, to see and to interact.
- Ketill Ingólfsson, Selfoss, Iceland
To Tell Stories and have culture
- Minnie, Ohio
live, breathe, know people, and survive.
- Seamus , Murphy
It means mammals who are very intellegent and focused on two things,dominating and surviving!!
- Austin 8th grade science class, Pennsylvania, mount union high school
To be Human is to constantly seek meaning in the world around us, and trying to understand our purpose in this universe.
- Katelin, CA, USA
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To engage and disengage from our reality and the reality of others is to be human.
- Rajeev, Greensboro, NC
no more than other living thing if earth as an organism we present ourselves like a virus only ego makes us believe we are something more
- Nicole, Strafford, NH
It is to ask this very question.
- Marcin Krol, Montréal, QC
To be human is to be brave enough to learn what more there is beyond our quest for daily survival.
- Jim Mauch, Cudahy, Wisconsin
Sculpture of Plato taken from Wikipedia
Humans are indefinabilities that become conscious of their own existence.
- David Roemer, Brooklyn, NY
You get to choose how you want to exist, with only a few restrictions on things that must be done to exist.
- Ray Ponte, Lakeland, FL
To be human is to pondering this very question...
- Tamara R. Grayson, Derby, UK
To be Human means to experience. Since we are the sum of our memories, the more we can experience, the more Human we can become.
- Russell Senior, Detroit, MI
Only humans have snooty grammarians for our languages! (As far as we can tell.)
- Jon von Gunten, Tujunga, CA
It is the uniquely human quality that allows us to ponder the very question "What does it mean to be human?" that makes us human.
- Robert P. Hagstrom, Flagstaff AZ