Cover shows a frame created by a dozen different animals.

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

by Melanie Challenger Author

This combination of biology, genetics, zoology, evolutionary psychology and philosophy offers a wide-ranging take on an important question. Why do we has humans resist the idea that we are animals? As a species we pat ourselves on the back for our intelligence, but how smart are we if we don't even admit we are animals? Author Melanie Challenger tells the story of what it is to be human and the existential struggle we face from facing our own animal faces. Challenger traces the history of this attitude from the agrarian and industrial revolutions through the age of internet. How to Be Animal is a reappraisal of humanity and also a defense of what it means to be an animal.

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