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Publisher:
The Experiment, LLC
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Adam Rutherford explores the profound paradox of the "human animal." Looking for answers across the animal kingdom, he finds that many things once considered exclusively human are not: In Australia, raptors have been observed starting fires to scatter prey; in Zambia, a chimp named Julie even started a "fashion" of wearing grass in one ear. We aren't the only species that communicates, makes tools, or has sex for reasons other than procreation. But...
2. Humanimal
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Publisher:
The Audio Agency Ltd
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
So, you think you're special? You think that just because people have built giant cities, invented pop-up toasters, and put a person on the Moon that they are somehow different from other living things? Well it's time to think again! Humanimal explains the connections between the human and animal worlds in ways you never before Discover how slime moulds can navigate through a maze; how rats tickle and laugh out loud; how elephants have funerals for...
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Publisher:
WoEB, What On Earth Books
Pub. Date:
2019
Lexile measure:
1070L
Language:
English
Description:
"So you think you're special? Just because people have built cities, invented pop-up toasters, and put people on the Moon, that they are somehow different from (or better than) other living things? Well, it's time to think again! Humanimal explores the interconnections of the human and natural worlds in ways you never before imagined... Inside you will discover how slime molds learn how to navigate through a maze; how rats are ticklish and how it...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Description:
The author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human-and the ways we are (and aren't) unique among animalsWe like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but are we really more special than other animals? In this original and entertaining tour of life on Earth, Adam Rutherford explores how many of the things once considered to be exclusively human are not: We are not the only species that communicates,...
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Language:
English
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The Indoor Epidemic is an accessible, readable book that educators, parents, policymakers, and general readers can use to develop an in-depth understanding of the role the outdoors has played in our evolutionary and cultural history-and how it affects their own daily life. Readers will be astounded by the depth to which a sedentary, indoor lifestyle has negatively affected their ability to live a fulfilling life. But it's also a story, the story of...