Humans have not advanced beyond their technology for its entire existence.

What you've said is all well and good but it simply proves that man has no strength or separation from animals beyond their technology. Humans adapting their surroundings: technology. Complex buildings: technology. Building anything: technology. I bring up the tank vs tiger point to exemplify one thing: we are nothing without what we make. Nature is the one obstacle any living thing has to fight against. A person can not beat a tiger with its own hands, rather they use a tank. Is the person killing the tiger? No, the tank is. The person has to operate it, yes, but the power is not within the human but the tool itself. The fact that the tiger cannot run it matters not, as a tiger can defend itself using itself. We can't. We are no better than what we make. I say a brain cannot build a building. This is true. I brain cannot by itself build anything. But the brain uses the body to build great sky scrappers. The brain is our only natural handicap over other species, yet by itself it is nothing. Without anything to meld (the earth) it is useless. The ability to make the tank has always been there with the matter itself, but the tank, the object itself, cannot exist until it is made. The brain using the body makes it. But that does not make the tank an entity in itself. It is simply stuff that has already been there resculpted into something taking a different shape that does different things. This is what man can do that other things can't, but as I said before, it does not change who humans are. When I say "if everything was gone, we would die" I mean this: if we had no technology we would be dead. Our hairless bodies would die in the cold and rain without coats or houses. Our lack of a natural defence would make us succumb to predators in an instant, in which case poison quills would be very useful. If we were set in such a position, having to use only what we had when we where born, then man would die. We are nothing without technology, the brain and its intelligence only makes building possible. Without which, the basic human is fodder. Again, you bring up how we can change ourselves in the future, but using what? Technology. Once again, without it, we will never be able to move beyond our primal selves. Without computers or nanomachines to manipulate our genes, we will never be able to grow poison quills. Useless without technology. I have a very thorough understanding of how evolution works and the paleontological past, which is why I made this claim in the first place. Man did not evolve the city, we made the city, we just evolved dexterous hands and a larger than normal brain. Until man made the sharpened rock as an Australopithecus or Homo Erectus we where the prey of animals such as crocodiles, birds, large cats, and wild dogs. It would be the same today had we not needed to craft our superiority, rather than develop it naturally. All this originated from Africa supposedly, and we are not better than those ancestral apes. Hands that cannot shred skin. A hide that does not protect against cold. Only a brain. A brain that builds and makes things. But nothing we make is us. We make it then use it. We, the human race, are no better than what we build. Thus, useless without technology. We have not advanced, only our arts and crafts have. Darth_Grievous_42 out.