When my dad was a kid the family had a dog with more sense than the typical kid his own age.  The little shit liked carrots, a fairly common trait among asian decent canines.  This dog would clean the dirt off around the tops of the carrots until he found one that was a nice size, pull it, fill the hole back in, wipe the dirt off the carrot in the grass, and hide the top when he was done.  The kids were taking the rap for it too.  As if anyone would suspect a dog of covering his tracks so carefully, or checking the size before pulling them up.

As someone cleaning out beaver dams on a fairly regular basis, I can personally attest to the superior construction skills of certain individuals.  Some build loose dams, some build them tight.  I've pulled out dams where the little shits sunk support beams into the banks and wove the sticks together like they were braiding hair.  The beaver that designed those was a fucking genius of a beaver.  I had to cut them out piece by piece, the normal beaver dam is a cinch to remove because beavers aren't designing dams with the intent of making them hard to remove.  They're tough as nails only in one direction, from the back you just yank on the limbs and they practically remove themselves.  The only thing I can think of is that one of the little shits got tired of me undoing their work every day and tried to fix the problem.

By all means though, pretend we're unique.

We may adapt quickly, but perhaps that just means our destruction all the sooner. 

Humans have evolvedbecause of our ability to lie, (which can also attribute to our ability to manipulate on such a grand scale).

This was, I believe, our tool for survival, where we had no physical defenses against predators.  We did, however, have our ability to lie.  Ironic that it is both the basis of our existance/survival, yet something that we hold as such a negative trait in our society.

I don't mean lying in just the verbal, "Honey, I'm NOT having an affair," kind of way, (though that could be one way, haha,) but as a general term that covers things such as manipulation of nature, and camouflage.  For example, We can't out-fight a wolf, but we can make it believe that we are something we are not, with the use of banging rocks, and shouting. 

Camouflage, or blending in with nature, in order to lie to the predators senses, such as rolling in mud to hide our scent. 

Manipulating stone to make arrows, and ultimitely manipulating nature in order to create things such as plastic, and steel out of things that were once natural, but cannot co-exist with nature, creating a sort of "false naturality."

So much rationalization, so little fact.

Chimps hunt with spears and fashion stone tools for cutting and pounding.  Woodpeckers employ the use of twigs in digging insects out of their bores.  Ravens possess analytical genius.

Delusions of grandeur.

I didn't say we were the only creatures that did so.  All animals use tools of some sort or another, whether it is part of their body, or something such as a stick.  And I believe that more animals than we realize have analytical skills.  Dolphin's seem to even have names.  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060508_dolphins.html

Nor did I say humans were better creatures.  In fact, I believe quite the opposite.  You don't see other animals on the path to complete self-destruction, however humans have managed to master that.

Facts are simply things that are currently known.  None of the facts that you stated contradict anything that I have said.

Compete yes... try to complete annihilate, not so much. There is no documentation of healthy animals trying to destroy themselves, or their entire species.

You keep implying that this argument has been made.  Nowhere did I mention that what we have done is UNIQUE, you're arguing a point that was never made.  I didn't say we were the only ones that lied ("employed deception") or created tools, or had creativity period... simply that it was the basis of our survival. 

Your entire argument, in a nutshell, is that we aren't the only ones to use these techniques, and you can say this over and over, but that isn't the point.  The point is that I believe that humans survived and been able to evolve, because of our ability to lie.

You are not countering this, you are simply stating what I have not argued, that we are not the only creatures that have done this. 

But we never stop trying to.

Samurye.

Nope, I'm not, actually.  It was mentioned that human's ADAPT quickly, and I made the comment that I believe we evolved because of our ability to lie. 

Now if you would like me to argue that...

While human's aren't the only creatures that deceive, we are the only ones that have mastered it so completely that we can not only lie to other mammels, and even others of our own species, but to ourselves as well. 

If this weren't so, the delusional state you mentioned before wouldn't be possible.

Not to mention "self-denial," or the ability to create fictional stories.  

Humans dont need to evolve we have technology. Why adapt to the cold when you can have heaters? the case could be made that this may lead to our demise but our ability to use technollogy and understand how we can apply it gives us our advantage in the world. Other animals dont have higher brain functions, they lack the brain structures for them So we know this. As man evolved that area of the brain grew and it gave us the ability to create. Not just tools but art, language, poetry, music, and stories. Last i checked animals had none of these.

yes our brains are certainly improving. Research shows that the nest generation almost always has a higher IQ than the previous one. And yes while animal have a way to comunicate they dont have language which is a much more advance form of comunication.

"The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week." --Journey to the Ants, page 59. Bert Holldobler & Edward O. Wilson

"Lots of people think only humans fight wars. That only humans are murderous. Let me tell you something — compared to ants, human beings are full of nothing but peace, love, and understanding."-

This would be a type of adaptation to its environment.  The plant was probably never originally immune to the Ant's poison and so it adapted to its environment to survive the poison.  The other plants have yet to do so.