How Has Living With Animals Shaped Our Brains? With Michael Bond
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. Humans have long believed themselves separate from and superior to the animal world. It is new science revealing that the animals we have lived alongside for millennia have helped shape the way our minds work today. On today's episode, science writer Michael Bond joins host Dr.
Ganesh Taylor to argue that our relationship with animals has influenced human thought, culture and cognition, and what this means for the way we understand ourselves. Let's join our host, Dr. Ganesh Taylor, now with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared.
I'm Dr. Ganesh Taylor, Chancellor's Fellow at the Centre for Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh. Our guest today is Michael Bond, an award-winning science writer specialising in human behaviour. He is a former editor and reporter at New Scientist. He won a British Psychological Society Book Award for his book The Power of Others, and his acclaimed book, Wayfinding, The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way is an exploration of how humans navigate the world and has been translated into five languages.
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