When Desmond Morris's " Naked Ape " was published half a century ago, the evolution theory of was not widely recognized, and people were also taboo to discuss this topic, believing that humans are unique existences. Desmond Morris boldly compared humans with orangutans, studied orangutans' behavioral habits, used comparative biology to compare with humans, and called humans naked apes. You can imagine the shock to the entire society at the beginning, so this book was once listed as a banned book.
As the theory of evolution is gradually recognized, it is definitely a blessing that we can read this book on human evolution biology. It turns out that our human behavior habits have so many similarities with orangutans. Today's work is the hunting, today's house is the residence, today's cooking is the foraging, and today's food has so many similarities between humans and animals.
If we want to purely materialize humans, it is definitely an incomplete analogy. We have to admit that we humans have the biological nature of evolution from apes. However, we also have the ability to think rationally and create after evolution. If we only satisfy and indulge in biological attributes, it is no essential difference from animals. Therefore, we should give full play to the ability of Homo sapiens after evolution, so that the reason why Homo sapiens is Homo sapiens is a veritable title, a respected evolutionary species, we should at least distinguish them from animals in the following aspects and have what humans should do.
Beast nature and loyalty
Biogenic expressions are usually dominated by natural primitive desires, and sexual behavior may be diversified and unconstrained. This is a relatively primitive animal nature. If we humans also ignore moral constraints and are promiscuous and uncontrollable, it will be no different from animals.
As a human being of advanced animals, after evolution, it should maintain the existence of the family and the uniqueness of the spouse according to the monogamy under moral constraints. This is not only of great benefit, but also of an evolution of biological nature.
Humans dominate individual behavior through subjective rationality and external constraints. controls the biological side and shows the loyal side , which is the basic principle for being born to be worthy of this title.
Play and Exploration
Animal sex is usually mainly based on play in terms of lifestyle. All explorations may be out of curiosity, but the basic behavior patterns are dominated by entertainment, and the behavior itself does not create value.
Just like our current life, many people devote all their time to experiencing the fun of life, watching entertainment programs, movies, TV series, etc., without creating value. This behavior is essentially a fun act.
If all your life is devoted to fun without creating value, this is no different from animal attributes, and individual value is almost impossible to reflect. You can only consume resources as a consumer and spend your entire life.
As an individual of a high-level animal, our lifestyle should be fun, which is understandable, because this is part of life relaxation. However, we should make some due contributions to our high-level species. conducts some research and exploration in areas of interest to individuals, and spends part of their time focusing on research in a certain field or direction to create a unique social value . Then the value of existence as a human will be completely different, and it can exist differently from biological attributes.
Struggle and win-win
Biological attributes are more of a struggle in social interaction, such as the struggle of territorial consciousness, the competition of ape status, etc. In our human society, competition often exists in various forms due to the limitations of resources.
However, if we, as an evolutionary species, only focus on competition and not seek more diverse solutions, do not make the cake bigger but just strive for existing resources, then we will appear very backward and primitive.
We should abandon competitive thinking and take win-win as the common standard of our human society, so as to create a home together. After integrating existing resources, using tools and equipment to create products and services that can better meet the needs, improve productivity and productivity through clear division of labor, and allow everyone to have endless daily necessities and spiritual products. This is the common future we should move towards.
Conclusion
The reason why we were born as human is to be worthy of this title. We are not low-level creatures. We only know how to meet physiological needs and subconscious biological nature. Instead, we should think more through rationally, uphold win-win thinking, create a better life and future together, and maintain a good family and everyone. This is our mission to do this life.
Reference materials:
[1] Desmond Morris. Naked Ape [M]. Shanghai: Shanghai Translation Press, 2021.
