It is really incredible how different everyone is, is there this much variation in other animals?

Answer 1

Yes there is, but being humans we don't recognise it as well as the animals themselves.

Answer 2

Yes it is incredible, but remember that each and everyone of us is a unique individual. You are a one off; I am a one off; Everyone here is a one off. Humans have a thinking brain which animals do not, so you get endless variation. It's a wonder we work together as well as we do really. But it's also no surprise that so much of the world is fighting.

Answer 3

Humans are actually much *less* varied than most other creatures. Genetic evidence suggests that we went through a bottleneck about 70,000 years ago when the Toba supervolcano in Indonesia erupted, reducing our population to a maximum of 15,000 people. All humans alive today are descendants of these - even the difference between black and white people is small, genetically speaking.

Most other animal species are much more diverse, except of course the ones that have been artificially bred from a few individuals (such as hamsters). They can vary much more in size, skin/fur/hair colour, patterning, etc.

Answer 4

Zebras - each individual animal has a unique stripe pattern.
Black-Foot Penguins - each individual animal has a different spot pattern on its front.
As someone above has said, there are many variations, it's just that we are not perceptive enough to see them.

Answer 5

Physically people are just /so/ similar it is unbeleivable (mentally - who can really say!).

Think about cats -- one or two types that produce mogs if they ever breed out.

Think about dogs -- loads of types that keep traits generation after generation.

I think people are far more like cats...