Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom (book review in The New Statesman)
Most of our science, philosophy and religion starts from the assumption that there are humans and there are animals – and there could never at any point be any common ground between them. To call someone an animal is as bad an insult as you can offer, and yet we’re all mammals. For centuries, the notion of human uniqueness was the most fundamental orthodoxy. Now it is being challenged. Book after book ventures into the no-man’s-land – the no-animal’s-land – that lies between our species and the other ten million or so in the animal kingdom. As often as not, they reveal more of ourselves than of our fellow animals.
Lucy Cooke, The Unexpected Truth About Animals
Peter Wohlleben, The Inner Life of Animals
Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses
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