Humanness is not an easy term to define. Readers of these short essays will know how frequently I walk my dog and perhaps wonder why I should be constantly intrigued ...

Even though you are reading this on a sophisticated electronic device, you are an animal. That’s the most radical idea to come out of Charles Darwin’s groundbreaking studies of evolution, and even ...

“Homo sapiens rules the world because it is the only animal that can believe in things that exist purely in its own imagination, such as gods, states, money and human rights.” It is with this idea ...