What makes us Human?

What makes us human? is based on the talks presented at a
symposium with that title, organised by the Oxford International
Biomedical Centre in conjunction with the Royal
Institution, in Oxford in March 2006. The five distinguished speakers
on that occasion have now been joined by a further ten experts, giving
the subject the broadest coverage possible. The background of the
contributors, from Italy and New Zealand, from UK and USA,
ranges across anthropology, biochemistry, medicine, neuroscience,
philosophy, psychology, and religion. It is not often that you get writers
of the calibre of Susan Blackmore, Walter Bodmer, Michael
Corballis, Robin Dunbar, Maurizio Gentilucci, Richard Harries,
David Hulme, Stephen Oppenheimer, Charles Pasternak, Thomas Suddendorf, Ian Tattersall, Andrew Whiten, Lewis Wolpert, and Richard Wrangham under one cover. Click on any of these names on
the internet and the breadth of their erudition will be obvious.
Several
of the articles present new scientific data, yet each is written at a level
that will appeal to a lay readership as much as to an academic one. Is it
our cognitive abilities, our use of tools, our story-telling, our beliefs,
our curiosity, our ability to cook, our culture, that make us human?
Are we half ape or half angel? What makes us human? will not
disappoint.

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