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How are birds and humans different?

How are birds and humans different?

The main difference between the human and bird skeleton is that the bird’s skeleton is adapted for flight. The bones of a bird are hollow which makes the skeleton lighter. A bird’s sternum is large and positioned under the body – flight muscles attach to this bone. The ridge of the bird’s sternum is called a keel.

What would it be like to live in a world without birds and animals?

Without birds, seeds will not be dispersed, and many trees will disappear. Without trees, there will be nothing to produce oxygen. Without worms and other insects, the soil used for farming will become barren. Nature is in balance and every type of animal contributes, from larger mammals to insects.

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What makes human beings different from other animals?

Humans and animals both eat, sleep, think, and communicate. Some people think that the main differences between humans other animal species is our ability of complex reasoning, our use of complex language, our ability to solve difficult problems, and introspection (this means describing your own thoughts and feelings).

How did human beings evolve from monkeys?

Simple answer. Human beings did not evolve from modern-day monkeys; human beings and modern-day monkeys both evolved from an extinct common ancestor (which was also, colloquially speaking, ‘a monkey’).

Are humans more closely related to monkeys or apes?

Humans are more closely related to modern apes than to monkeys, but we didn’t evolve from apes, either. Humans share a common ancestor with modern African apes, like gorillas and chimpanzees.

Could another species emerge and evolve just like humans?

So, in just a few hundred years, another species different from humans could emerge and evolve. Humans are notoriously different from birds. They belong to another evolutionary branch, and as such, they have very little in common with creatures like us. However]

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Did humans evolve from apes?

We did indeed evolve from apes. Indeed, depending on how you choose to define an ‘ape’, you could say that we humans are apes. But, as I make clear in the article and diagram, the apes (including humans) evolved from ‘monkeys’ (according to some people’s chosen definition of the word).