Most Recent Articles from Daedalus

• Introduction 

  The essays in this volume examine some of the ways that we, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, understand what it means to be human....

  07/01/09 · More from publication

• changing face of human nature, The 

  In 1992, at the start of the surprisingly short decade's march toward the sequencing of the human genome, one of its key initiators, geneticist...

  07/01/09 by Rose, Hilary; Rose, Steven · More from publication

• Humans: the party animal 

  By definition, the species Homo sapiens is unique. Over a time course of approximately seven million years, humans have evolved into quite a...

  07/01/09 by Gazzaniga, Michael S · More from publication

• Natural & normative 

  The flood of recent books in the last decade or so by neuroscientists, primatologists, computer scientists, evolutionary biologists, and economists...

  07/01/09 by Pippin, Robert B · More from publication

• Humans, aliens & autism 

  Contraries illumine what they are not. Aliens, typically from outer space, are almost by definition not human. Current portrayals of aliens may...

  07/01/09 by Hacking, Ian · More from publication

• Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals - continued 

  Editors' note: Thisyear marks the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth. Darwin famously breathed new life into the philosophical and scientific...

  07/01/09 · More from publication

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