The ultimate search of humanity - Carl Sagan shows us better than anyone else
"Now here is the naturalistic, and I believe correct, diagnosis of old Homo Sapiens. our familiar"wise man":
Cultural. With indeterminate intellectual potential but biologically constrained. Basically a primate species in body and emotional repertory (member of the Order Primates, Infraorder Catarrhini, Family Hominidae). Huge compared to other animals, parvihirsute, bipedal, porous, squishy, composed mostly of water. Runs on millions of coordinated delicate biochemical reactions. Easily shut down by trace toxins and transit of pea-sized projectiles. Short-lived, emotionally fragile. Dependent in body and mind on other earth-bound organisms. Colonization of space impossible without massive supply lines. Starting to regret deeply the loss of Nature and all those other species."
Edward O. Wilson, "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge" pp.278-279
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