User blog comment:Anakin Skyobiliviator/Merging with Wookieepedia/@comment-4061770-20120402105010/@comment-1956117-20120404213929

Humans are technically animals. However, we are so civilized (compared to other animals), developed, and advanced that there is technically a 'gap' between us and the rest of the animal kingdom; therefore, there are people who believe that we are not animals and there are people (like Anakin and myself) who do. I think it's purely based on opinion, but Humans as a whole were once animals (that is if you believe in evolution).

I bet that if animals lived life like us for a billion years, they'd eventually evolve into humanoid (as in like actions and lifestyle, not how they look) species (don't know the plural of the word).