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from political bees to talking pigs – how ancient thinkers saw the human-animal divide

  • Written by Julia Kindt, Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney
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What makes us human? What (if anything) sets us apart from all other creatures? Ever since Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, the answer to these questions has pointed us back to our own animal nature.

Yet the idea that, in one way or another, our humanity is entangled with the non-human has a much longer and more venerable...

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