Humanimal : how Homo sapiens became nature's most paradoxical creature : a new evolutionary history
Publication Information
New York : The Experiment, 2019.
Physical Description
240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the "human animal." Looking for answers across the animal kingdom, he finds that many things once considered exclusively human are not: In Australia, raptors have been observed starting fires to scatter prey; in Zambia, a chimp named Julie even started a "fashion" of wearing grass in one ear. We aren't the only species that communicates, makes tools, or has sex for reasons other than procreation. But we have developed a culture far more complex than any other we've observed. Why has that happened, and what does it say about us? Humanimal is a new evolutionary history-a synthesis of the latest research on genetics, sex, migration, and much more. It reveals what unequivocally makes us animals-and also why we are truly extraordinary. - adapted from book jacket.
Notes
Originally published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2018 under the title: The book of humans.