I think our difficulty comes from the fact that we are unable to admit how exceptional we are. There is a fad at the moment, and it&#x27;s been ongoing for a century or more, to assign a degree of banality to the biological classification of the human race.<p>The obvious problem we all have with this is that we are the ones doing the assigning. I&#x27;m reading articles like this on a machine designed and built by humans with, if nothing else, the ability to process mathematical equations at a speed far beyond any normal human ability. We do things that are so obviously exceptional and unique that to classify us alongside chimpanzees due to DNA similarities strikes us all as absurd (because it is).<p>When the article points out that you wouldn&#x27;t assign a separate genus to an animal just because it uses tools, they&#x27;re missing the fact that the difference between a bird using a stick to fetch a seed and one that doesn&#x27;t is absurdly simplistic relative to LANDING ON THE F--KING MOON. At some point, perhaps something that doesn&#x27;t factor in for other animals should be factored in for us due to the extreme amounts of difference between my DVR recorder and the special rock a chimp uses break open a nut.<p>To me, this comes across as biological tunnel vision. Since the differences between other animals fall into simpler categories like appearance and genetics, biologists don&#x27;t want to introduce something like &quot;behavior&quot; into the mix for fear of it complicating the process. The problem is that in the case of homo sapiens, behavior is an unbelievably big deal.