How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human

In this fascinating new book from author Melanie Challenger, explore what it means to be a human, and more importantly, what it means to be an animal. Challenger argues that a critical aspect of the trajectory of human development was shaped by our confrontation with the fact of our animality. Even as we discovered new principles of science and made observations about the world that other animals had and could not, we struggled with our instincts and animality in such a way as to spur our desire to shape and control the world even further. Persuasively argued, and a fascinating look at the whole of human history through a new lens, How to Be Animal is a must read for the biologically and anthropologically inclined.

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