THE ACCIDENTAL SPECIES / MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Gee presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see ourselves as the acme of creation. Far from being a quirk of religi ous fundamentalism, human exceptionalism, Gee argues, is an error that also infects scientific thought. Touring the many features of human beings that have recurrently been used to distinguish us from the rest of the animal world, Gee shows that our evolutionary o utcome is one possibility among many, one that owes more to chance than to an organized progression to supremacy. He starts with bip edality,...[Read more]