The Unique Animal
A profound journey of discovery to find the essence of humans and other animals and life forms.
Which underlying patters explain both the shared and unique characteristics of people and other life forms? That is the question at the heart of The Unique Animal. A question that, despite centuries of philosophical and scientific debate, has never before been researched with quite such rigour.
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Original title
Het unieke dier. Op zoek naar het specifiek menselijke
Author
Rens Bod
Year of publication
2025
Publisher
Prometheus
Page count
304
Contact for translation rights
Lotte de Boer
foreignrights@pbo.nl
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A most enthralling of encyclopaedias. Over 300 pages, Rens Bod discusses what could be the complete range of similarities and differences between people and other living beings.
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Rens Bod
Rens Bod is a professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam and was formerly a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of St Andrews (UK). His previous publications include A New History of the Humanities. The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present (2010), which won several prizes and was translated into seven languages, A World of Patterns (2019), was nominated for the Libris History Prize.