Animate

How Animals Shape the Human Mind
A wide-ranging exploration of how animals have wired our brains and shaped the way we live, from the cave art of the earliest humans to the most cutting edge of contemporary neuroscience.

'An astonishing adventure' – Isabella Tree, author of Wilding
'Thrilling, effortlessly readable' – Charles Foster, author of The Edges of the World
'Impeccably researched' – Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals

A mind-expanding deep dive into how animals have shaped us, from the palaeolithic to the present day.

In Animate, science writer Michael Bond explores how animals have profoundly influenced our minds and cultures. Drawing on cutting-edge insights from psychology, anthropology, literature and neuroscience, Bond traces the varied ways their lives have affected ours, from our hunter-gatherer ancestors whose brains were rewired by the prey they hunted and the predators they feared, to the medieval and Enlightenment thinkers who used animals to promote notions of human supremacy.

Scientists today are challenging the assumption that we are separate from and superior to animals, showing that they too possess intelligence, empathy, creativity and even the ability to use tools. If everything that supposedly makes us human is shared with other creatures, where does that leave us? And if we are not as exceptional as we thought, how should we be treating the animals we live alongside?

A fascinating exploration of what it means to be both human and animal, Animate shows that to better understand ourselves, we must pay more attention to the other beings with whom we share our world.

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