How the idea of human superiority over nature was invented

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A young girl plays a game of chess with a chimpanzee at London Zoo in the 1950s.Credit: William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty

Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind Michael Bond Picador (2026)

Humans are animals. This statement, although true, is unsettling for many people. Such discomfort reveals a deep ambivalence about how we see ourselves — a part of nature, yet somehow different from the rest of it.

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