What Does It Mean To Be Human? An Evolutionist’s View

By: David Sloan Wilson
The Center for Humans and Nature has identified the question “What does it mean to be human?” as important for its central mission of understanding the relationship between humans and nature. In the essays that were commissioned to address the question, the authors seemed irresistibly drawn to another question: How can we cope with the enormous problems threatening humans and the natural world, caused largely by the impact of humans on the natural world? [Read more] ...