Basic characteristics of human beings?

What are the basic characteristics of human beings as human beings?

breathing

I got one down, any others?

NO! I change my answer!

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we are pretty much monkeys.

we have feelings/emotion...sympathy for others.

Hell, shrews have thumbs, and dolphins have feelings.

Not sure what you're looking for here. A genetic sequence? Becuase I'm pretty loathe to type out all those GATCs,

violence, greed, and manipulation. those are the 3 biggest ones that makes our world what it is today

I love Synyster Gates.

A spoken language is what seperates us from Primates. The ablility to share our thoughts and ideals and work together. Sure animals communicate but not on the same level we do. The way to become smarter is from making mistakes and by language oral or written, learning from others.
what do you think?

language... and many of them, the ability to read and write, and share our knowlege a such a great level. I also love how us human are the only ones whom are able to reproduce beings that don't look a 100% the same and have the same personalities (unless your identical twins)... and sure there are may species of animals... but us, we have diffrent types of races!