Recently added articles from Daedalus:
Introduction.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2009 ... 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. It is a question that involves us, necessarily, in the traditional concerns of world religions and of the disciplines we call "the humanities." ...
The Changing Face of Human Nature.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... 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 Walter Gilbert, claimed that "one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me.'" (1) Gilbert's ...
Humans: The Party Animal.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... <Pre> By definition, the species Homo sapiens is unique. Over a time course of approximately seven million years, humans have evolved into quite a different animal from what was the last common ancestor we share with our closest surviving relative, the chimpanzee. Trying to figure ...
Natural and Normative.(Essay)
Jun 22, 2009; ... The flood of recent books in the last decade or so by neuroscientists, primatologists, computer scientists, evolutionary biologists, and economists about issues traditionally considered of interest to the humanities--issues like morality, politics, the nature of rationality, what makes a ...
Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals--continued.(The Descent of Man)(Excerpt)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Editors' note: This year marks the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth. Darwin famously breathed new life into the philosophical and scientific debates about humanness by asserting in "The Descent of Man " (1871) that "the difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as ...