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→Are humans animals?: new section
Not qualified to improve this article, other than to make it even shorter...
Not qualified to improve this article, other than to make it even shorter...
the article states that animals have no cell walls. If the article means Animal CELLS have no cell walls, I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. I'm an animal, and I'm sure somethings keeping the cytoplasm in my cells!
the article states that animals have no cell walls. If the article means Animal CELLS have no cell walls, I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. I'm an animal, and I'm sure somethings keeping the cytoplasm in my cells!
== Are humans animals? ==
I would just change this, but since an administrator wrote it I'll discuss it here first.
For the purposes of scientific classification, an 'animal' is any living thing that fulfils certain criteria, like being multicellular, eukaryotic, ingesting other organisms for nourishment, and a few other things. According to these standards, human beings are animals. Of course there are many important ways in which we differ from other animals, but for scientific purposes these are of secondary importance to the fact that we are multicellular, eukaryotic, etc...
In the opening paragraph, which describes the scientific definition of ''animal'', it is not appropriate to say that humans do not belong in this category. From a scientific point of view, ''animal'' is a plain description of physical features and not a pejorative description of primitive behavior. [[User:Eoinc|Eoinc]] 17:28, 16 January 2010 (EST)