In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to recognize a less admirable trait of Homo sapiens—self-centeredness. Subscribe to ...

The emotional commitment in some intellectual quarters to human UNexceptionalism continues to alarm me. As does the belief that scientific findings have reduced us to mere meat. We are far more than ...

I have a piece up today over at First Things about the latest attack on human exceptionalism–animal ensoulment–published, no less, in the science pages of the New York Times. I review some of the ...

What is nature? When Northeastern University researchers asked a sample of undergraduate students this question last spring, many of their responses included "the outdoors," "flora and fauna that ...

The most dangerous myths are the ones we don't see. Human exceptionalism—the belief that humans are fundamentally separate from and superior to the rest of nature—is one of those myths. It's embedded ...

Primatologist Christine Webb argued at a Harvard talk on Tuesday that modern science is often skewed by “human exceptionalism,” or the belief that humans have special qualities that make us superior ...

Whether or not human beings are exceptional is one of the most important questions of our age. Either we have unique value and moral responsibilities, or we are just another animal in the forest, and ...

This post is in response to Animal Minds and the Foible of Human Exceptionalism By Marc Bekoff Ph.D. Imagine you are driving down the street, and from the left side of the road, a dog runs out in ...