Book description
You think you're human. But what does that mean? How can humanity be defined? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto takes us on an enlightening journey through the history of humankind to reveal the challenges to our most fundamental belief - that we are, and have always been, human. Chimps and humans are objectively…
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This twenty-year-old little book has maybe the best title ever conceived, and it does a pretty good job of living up to it – and in fact, in our age of AI, it seems startlingly prescient.
Fernandez-Armesto has recognised that the category ‘human’ is right at the centre of our way of understanding the world, and that fundamentally it makes no sense: we don’t really know what it means, what constitutes it, or how to delineate it. On our journey, we occasionally trigger one of his actual opinions like a hidden land-mine, which keeps you on your toes; but mostly…
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