Fundamental aspects of

Human nature

By:
S.SANTHOSH
18BME4118
 HUMAN NATURE

SKILLS,

KNOWLEDGE,

BEHAVIOUR,

FEEDING,

COMMUNICATION.
SKILLS: Being playful.
 You may have heard the fact that humans
and dolphins are the only species that mate
for pleasure. This, perhaps unsurprisingly,
is not true. Several other animals have sex
where reproduction is impossible or
unlikely. What’s interesting is that few
other species are as generally playful as
humans.
SKILLS: Being playful.
 We enjoy not only physical activities
(sports, games, dancing and even tickling)
but we also play with language (making
jokes, creating music) and use our
imaginations. We carry our childhood sense
of playfulness right into adulthood, rare
among other species.
KNOWLEDGE: Being scientific. 
 Aschildren, we learn to identify patterns.
We might identify and group all the red
Lego bricks together, or recognise that a
two-piece brick slots above another two-
piece brick. We find ourselves constantly
sorting the world into categories,
predicting how things work and testing our
predictions.
KNOWLEDGE: Being scientific. 
 Thissays that this is the very essence of
science and is evident in everything from
the establishment of time and calendars to
our use of measuring units and our pursuit
of cosmic knowledge.
BEHAVIOUR: Being legislative

 Many animals adhere to simple behavioral

rules (often around territory and
hierarchy), but none have a sophisticated
system of rules, taboos and etiquette like
that of humans.
BEHAVIOUR: Being legislative
 Without studying every community in the world, we
can’t say for certain whether each and every one
has formal laws but humans, by nature, tend to have
rules. These rules always involve governing behaviour in
three key areas
1] kinship
2]Safety
3] use of objects.
FEEDING: Being epicurean.
 To most animals, a meal is just a meal: a way
to sustain their bodies so they can continue
living. To humans, a meal can be a labour of
love, a work of art, a vehicle for seduction,
an event in and of itself. Cooking, one of
humanity’s greatest inventions, has made a
huge difference.
COMMUNICATION: Being gossipy.


 Humans use gossip to cement relationships, that
gossip is the human equivalent of primate
grooming. We have too many relationships to
maintain through time-consuming grooming so we
engage in chat instead: “Gossip evolved for oiling
the wheels of social interaction,”– a maxim that
applies to everyone from schoolchildren to the
most powerful leaders of the world.
THANK YOU…