With only 1 percent difference, the human and chimpanzee protein-coding genomes are remarkably similar. Understanding the biological features that make us human is part of a fascinating and intensely debated line of research. Researchers have developed a new approach to pinpoint adaptive human-specific changes in the way genes are regulated in the brain. (1) But we are humans because we are humans. And everything contributes to it. Our eyes and nose. Our DNA and our feet. Our feelings and our hate. Our soul and our quest for love and meaning. Look at the mirror. There is nothing to see. But the things you are and dream.

You see, we are all humans.

Traveling the dark sea.

But we will never truly be.

Without drowning…

And someone crying for us.

(I don’t want to be!)