If the earth is 4.5 billion years old and modern humans are only 200 thousand years old?

Why do our modern human brains trick us into thinking that we are so special? I think it was Freud that called this the super ego. The arrogance of the modern human to think we are somehow special. Will life prove otherwise? We eat like everything else. We breathe like everything else. We sleep like everything else. We get sick like everything else. We die like everything else. It seems to me that we are a small piece of one the universe's infinite number of phenomenons. That is all.