Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind by Bond, Michael
Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind by Bond, Michael

Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind

A mind-expanding deep dive into how animals have shaped us, from the Paleolithic Period to the present...
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Author: Michael Bond
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind by Bond, Michael

Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind

$38.40
Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind by Bond, Michael

Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind

$38.40
Author: Michael Bond
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A mind-expanding deep dive into how animals have shaped us, from the Paleolithic Period to the present day.

In Animate, acclaimed science writer Michael Bond explores how animals have profoundly influenced our minds and cultures. Drawing on cutting-edge insights from psychology, anthropology, literature and neuroscience, Bond traces the varied ways their lives have affected ours, from our hunter-gatherer ancestors whose brains were rewired by the prey they hunted and the predators they feared, to the medieval and Enlightenment thinkers who used animals to promote notions of human supremacy.

Scientists today are challenging the assumption that we are separate from and superior to animals, showing that they too possess intelligence, empathy, creativity and even the ability to use tools. If everything that supposedly makes us human is shared with other creatures, where does that leave us? And if we are not as exceptional as we thought, how should we be treating the animals we live alongside?

A fascinating exploration of what it means to be both human and animal, Animate shows that to better understand ourselves, we must pay more attention to the other beings with whom we share our world.

Author: Michael Bond
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 08/04/2026
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9798897101429


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2026
Library Journal 06/01/2026 pg. 105
Publishers Weekly 06/01/2026
Booklist 07/01/2026

About the Author
Michael Bond, the author of the acclaimed Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way, is a writer specializing in human behaviour and a former editor and reporter at New Scientist. He won the 2015 British Psychological Society Prize for The Power of Others and is currently teaching writing as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University.
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