Animals Made Us Human: A Short History of How Animals Shaped Our Evolution and Drove Science, Technology, and Civilization

There are millions of animal species on Earth but only one non-animal species: us. True, humans are unique and fundamentally distinct. We have consciousness and free will, a state of mind, written and spoken languages, the capacity to make tools, and to build cities and machines. We are in many ways different from the non-human world. But how did we become what we are? In the last three million years of evolution, we have been deeply influenced by the natural world around us-especially anim...