An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.

Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference—rather than a porous transition—between the human and animal. At

In this book, Isaac Alderman uses insights from the cognitive study of death anxiety and disgust to examine the animal-human boundary in Genesis 2-3, providing

This book traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and shows how the taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was challenged.

"An excellent interdisciplinary collage . . . of considerable interest to philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists (of a theoretical stripe), sociologis