Humanimal: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War, and the Evolution of Us

The bestselling author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human-and animal



Evolutionary theory has long established that humans are animals: Modern Homo sapiens are primates who share an ancestor with monkeys and other great apes. Our genome is 98 percent identical to a chimpanzee's. And yet we think of ourselves as exceptional. Are we?



In this original and entertaining tour of life on Earth, Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the "hum...