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Bioethics

Book Review: How To Be Animal, A New History of What it Means to Be Human

January 7, 2024 by JoeAnn Hart

By Melanie Challenger, (Penguin Books, March, 2021) To call someone an animal is considered a grave insult, but it is also the truth. We, the humans, we are all animals. …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Endangered Species, History, Nonfiction, Penguin Books, Penguin Random House, Rewilding

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