The Unique Animal -- Het Unieke Dier

What distinguishes us from other animals? What do we have in common with them? Do we really understand who we are? It was long thought that our capacity for reason, morality, self-awareness, language, and religion fundamentally distinguishes us from animals. But in recent decades, it has become clear that much of what is considered uniquely human also exists in other animals, albeit often in less complex or refined forms. Perhaps the real distinction between humans and animals is not so much a specific characteristic, but the extent to which we are able to develop those characteristics?

The Unique Animal -- Het Unieke Dier takes the reader on a journey (in Dutch) through the many claims about unique human characteristics and the supposed distinction between humans and animals. At the end of this groundbreaking book, Rens Bod provides a crystal-clear answer to what connects humans, animals, and other living beings, and in what ways they still differ from each other.