Lying to themselves
Humans are endurance predators. While many other predators and animals can outrun is in the short term, there’s very, very few animals on Earth that can match us at pure persistence, hunting and tracking down prey until it might die just of pure exhaustion.
Memes.
Making dreams real.
Yeah, this is big brain time.
Healing, we aren’t the best but injuries that would end the life of most animals can be basically shrugged off with some rest.