Submit Your Response to "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. Each time you visit this page, a different set of answers will be featured on the first page.

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

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Being human is to ponder.No other species questions why they are here and what they do.Being human is about the mind.And opposable thumbs.

- Finley H., pensacola

What does it mean to be human? I was made in God’s own Image.
We have a body, soul, and spirit. These are an important part of each of our lives. I take time to listen when others talk about what they think it means to be human, even if I disagree.

- Dorita Kay McClanahan, Hurley, Virginia

It is probably the best thing to be born a human being but much more fortunate to be able to do things that only human can do.

- Narsing Rao Gummadam, Hyderabad INDIA

To be human means that we have the capability to think, feel , make decisions and choices, and have beliefs. This is in contrast to animals, objects, machines that although these things enhance the human experience, do not bring the same qualities to it.

- Renee Lapointe, Orono Maine

It doesn't.

- yes, Bay City

I feel like the metamorphosis isn't exactly a real situation but It uses ballet to show how things can happen and no matter what happens you have to keep going on with your life which is what the family showed while a person in their family was changing.

- aiden, camarillo

Humans pass down history, technology, have complex governmental, cultural structures, and laws for human behavior. We are masters of the environment, ourselves and are able to overcome new environments by exploring deep sea to outer space.

- Grace, Michigan

The most ingenious yet most destructive animal to exist on Earth.

- GP Keller, Washington DC

a mammal evolved from a monkey to a Homosapien. Having opposable thumbs and a superior brain is another factor.

- Vyas, Gotham City

Being human means I need God to make meaning in life and survive in a dirt body.

- - security guard, Dubai