Humans? The thinking part? So you're telling me that for all these years our heads have been up our collective asses for the warmth?

Humans are manipulators. No other species would possibly need to divine a periodic table, just for the sheer fact that they don't try to manipulate the system. You may see certain biologic processes, okay, perhaps tool usage, sure, but blind capacity for destruction? We're alone on that one. What other species would need to invent a god to tell it what it does is okay? And no one else bitches about the price of gas. (btw: animals that can talk only have the vocabulary we've given them--so that's not a fair analogy)

The part I find ultimately ridiculous is that humans will continually try to find a solution to a problem that will be beneficial to them (homo saps) and not us (earth dwellers). If you want to take it down to medical terms, we would be more like a malignant tumor than a brain. We function independently, encroach at will, and will more than likely kill the system we are inhabiting before we are through.

~J