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Maybe we think we are the best not because we can speak eloquently but because we can create stories about ourselves that explain our surrounds and behaviors.  Maybe the fact that we think we are superior is just a byproduct of us being able to produce and give meaning to stories.  Bacteria react and act based on chemical changes in their environment.  The bacteria change, reproduce, or move because some element in their environment signals or causes them to.  In humans maybe our behavior, when all boiled down, is just reactions to signals and chemical molecules in our environment ho(like the bacteria.)  However we create stories about our behavior and give it meaning.  We have babies and reproduce with another individual because we "love" them (or for many other reasons.)  Perhaps our story of love is just the attraction that we display towards another individual because they have the right pheromone and thus we are attracted to reproduce with them.  We have no other information about organisms that tell and create stories, perhaps our definition of superior will change if we find organisms whose neocortex can make explanations up for the “frog brain”, thus create stories.