Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Human behavior vs. animal behavior

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The result of the debate was DELETE. dbenbenn | talk 15:07, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Human behavior vs. animal behavior

Messy essay on human psychology. Possibly literal transcription of a high schooler's text. I would suggest merging except that there's nothing here that isn't already widely covered in the psychology articles. Radiant! 11:17, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

redirect to human behavior. dab (ᛏ) 11:54, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Personal essay. Trilobite (Talk) 14:32, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Just a personal essay. Not an encyclopedia article. Zzyzx11 21:34, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Delete. Personal essay. There are partial truths in there which could be encyclopedic, but none of them are adequately sourced. There is far too much problematic material in relation to salvageable material for it to be worth cleanup. In the opening sentences:

"the fact that intelligence is what sets the standards of who is dominant and who is not"—is that a fact? Sez who? Who is more intelligent, humans or bacteria? Who is "dominant?"

"In life there are two main goals, survival and passing on your genes." First, this is a badly constructed sentence. To what does "your" refer? You could rewrite it as "All living things have two main goals: survival and passing on their genes." Then you start encountering the logical issues. What does it mean to say that a living thing has "a goal?" And are survival and genetic self-propagation separate goals? Or is survival merely an means to the single goal of genetic self-propagation?

Someone has been reading, and thinking about what he or she has read, but does not yet understand it with sufficient depth or clarity to explain it to others. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:58, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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