TY  - BOOK
AU  - Challenger, Melanie
TI  - How to be animal : a New history of what it means to be human
SN  - 9781786895714
U1  - 599.9 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Canongate, 
KW  -      Human beings -- Animal nature.     Human-animal relationships
N1  - Combining nature writing, history and moral philosophy, this is a wide-ranging and radical new take on the human story and what it means for us today; The indelible stamp --
The dream of greatness --
The civil war of the mind --
A stranger to creation --
The journey-work of the stars --
Coda : on the loveliness of being animal
N2  - Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal writes a remarkable story of what it means to be human and argues that at the heart of our psychology is a profound struggle with being animal. As well as piecing together the mystery of how this psychology evolved, the book examines the wide-reaching ways in which it affects our lives, from our politics to the ways we distance ourselves from other species. We travel from the origins of Homo sapiens through the agrarian and industrial revolutions, the age of the internet, and on to futures of AI and human-machine interface. We examine how technology influences our sense of our own animal nature and our relationship with the other species with whom we share this fragile planet
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