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By Charles Pasternak

In What Makes Us Human? the various world's so much amazing thinkers supply their solutions to this perennial puzzle, together with Susan Blackmore, Robin Dunbar, Richard Harries, Kenan Malik and Lewis Wolpert. jointly they draw on a vast spectrum of disciplines, from anthropology, medication, and neuroscience, to philosophy, psychology and faith, to invite what makes us distinctively human. Is it our cognitive talents, our use of instruments, our story-telling, our ideals, our interest, our skill to prepare dinner, or our tradition?

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