![]() ![]() We aren't the only species that communicates, makes tools, or has sex for reasons other than procreation. 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. In this original and entertaining tour of life on Earth, Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the "human animal". ![]() And yet we think of ourselves as exceptional. Our genome is 98 percent identical to a chimpanzee's. ![]() The best-selling author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human - and animal.Įvolutionary theory has long established that humans are animals: Modern Homo sapiens are primates who share an ancestor with monkeys and other great apes. ![]()
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