Animal behaviors are either instinctive or learned. ... Human behaviors are learned rather than instinctive, but adaptive success comes at a cost, instincts make organisms "puppets" of their environment. ... In higher-order species like mammals we find fewer instincts and, greater behavioral flexibility and environmental adaptability. ... Humans have the fewest instincts, we have differing genetic tendencies and capacities to respond to our surroundings. ...

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According to Plato, by nature, human is a political animal. ... The need to exist within a functioning social system is a survival instinct. This instinct creates the immutable chain that binds any human being to a certain social organization. ... Since human beings can not exist without a social system, which can not function without politics, it proves Plato's claim that human beings are political animals. ... Among are the need to freedom, the instincts of survival and the urge to belong in social systems in order to gain different forms of security. ...

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The third part states that, "The worker is alienated from his human nature or his 'species being', because the first two aspects of alienation deprive his productive activity of those specifically human qualities which distinguish it from the activity of animals and thus define human nature (Abercrombie)." Marx is suggesting that because we are alienated from the product we produce and the emotional bond in the manner we produce it, we lose connection with the "human" aspects of life and become much more like animals, who do things only by nature and instinct. ... I feel as if I am h...

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The insatiable need to purchase, own, and consume has become so profoundly entrenched in twentieth-century Americans that their resurrected corpses are persistently driven by identical instincts and desires. ... Without labor, the characters are not able to become self-aware of their situation and when they lose this productive labor, the unaware individuals living in Romero's mall eventually fail to see what makes them essentially ' 'human,'' and they relapse to a more primitive, animal state...

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The existence of behavioral traditions--that is, patterns of behavior transmitted by social rather than by biologic hereditary means--has definitely been established for non-human animals. ... The question of whether the difference between the mind of man and that of animals is one of kind or of degree has been debated for many years, and even today reputable scientists can be found on both sides of this issue. But no one who holds the view that the difference is one of degree has adduced any evidence to show that animals are capable of a kind of behavior that all human beings exhibit. ... The...

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