Thinking Animals

About this book

In a world increasingly dominated by human beings the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. In this brilliant book Paul Shepard offers a provocative alternative to an "us or them" mentality proposing that other species are integral to humanitys evolution and exist at the core of our imagination. This trait he argues compels us to think of animals in order to be human. Without other living species by which to measure ourselves Shepard warns we would be less mature care less for and be more careless of all life including our own kind.