The author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it
means to be human--and the ways we are (and aren't) unique among animals
We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but are we really more
special than other animals? In this original and entertaining tour of life on
Earth, Adam Rutherford explores how many of the things once considered to be
exclusively human are not: We are not the only species that communicates, makes
tools, uses fire, or has sex for reasons other than procreation. Evolution has,
however, allowed us to develop a culture far more complex than any other
observed