Why has that happened, and what does it say about us? But we have developed a culture far more complex than any other we've observed.
We aren't the only species that communicates, makes tools, or has sex for reasons other than procreation. In this original and entertaining tour of life on Earth, Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the "human animal." Looking for answers across the animal kingdom, he finds that many things once considered exclusively human are not: In Australia, raptors have been observed starting fires to scatter prey in Zambia, a chimp named Julie even started a "fashion" of wearing grass in one ear. And yet we think of ourselves as exceptional. Our genome is 98 percent identical to a chimpanzee's.
The bestselling author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human-and animalĮvolutionary theory has long established that humans are animals: Modern Homo sapiens are primates who share an ancestor with monkeys and other great apes.
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