![]() ![]() His most recent book is Humanimal: How Homo Sapiens Became Nature's Most Paradoxical Creature - A New Evolutionary History. He has written numerous books on genetics, evolution, synthetic biology, human history, and the origin of life. ![]() in genetics from University College London. One big takeaway lesson is that it's harder to find firm distinctions than you might think animals use language and tools and fire, and have way more inventive sex lives than we do.Īdam Rutherford received his Ph.D. I talk with geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford about what makes us human, and how we got that way, both biologically and culturally. Nevertheless, there are ways in which we are unique humans are the only animals that stress out over Game of Thrones (as far as I know). Most people in the modern world - and the vast majority of Mindscape listeners, I would imagine - agree that humans are part of the animal kingdom, and that all living animals evolved from a common ancestor. ![]()
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