How are Humans Different Than Animals? Don’t Bother Asking a Scientist.1

• Education
• January 15, 2019

When the question of how human beings are different from other animals comes up, scientists begin to display a disturbing handicap in answering it. The theory of evolution, whatever else might be said about it, seems to constrain their answers to ones of mere differences of degree. Humans, they say, are more this way or