If Nietzsche were a narwhal what animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal overturns everything we thought we knew about human intelligence, and asks the question: would humans be better off as narwhals? Or some other, less brainy species? There's a good argument to be made that humans might be a less successful animal species precisely because...
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New York :
Little Brown & Company
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The why specialists: a story of hats, bets, and chicken butts
- To be honest: the power and pitfalls of lying
- Death wisdom: the downside of knowing the future
- The gay albatross around our necks: the problems with human morality - The mystery of the happy bee: it's time to talk about the "c" word
- Prognostic myopia: our shortsighted farsightedness
- Human exceptionalism: are we winning?
- Epilogue: Why save a slug?
