San Francisco Chronicle bestseller - BOOKRIOT Best Books of the Year - Next Big Idea Book Club Best Science Books of the Year I love the book, and everyone should read it. - Adam Grant The house cat who\'s better at picking winning stocks than actual fund managers Elephants who love to drink Pigeons who are better than radiologists at spotting cancerous tissue Bumblebees who are geniuses at teaching each other soccer What emerge.
Along the way, remarkable tales of Animal smarts emerge, as you\'ll discover: A dazzling, delightful read on What Animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcomings.
In seven mind-bending and hilarious chapters, Gregg highlights one feature seemingly unique to humans--our use of language, our rationality, our moral systems, our so-called sophisticated consciousness--and compares it to our Animal brethren.
And, miraculously, their success arrives without the added baggage of destroying themselves and the planet in the process.
Simply put, non-Human animals don\'t need it to be successful.
Is our Intelligence more of a curse than a gift? As scientist Justin Gregg persuasively argues, there\'s an evolutionary reason why Human Intelligence isn\'t more prevalent in the Animal kingdom.
We are uniquely susceptible to bullshit (though, cuttlefish may be the best liars in the Animal kingdom); our bizarre obsession with lawns has contributed to the growing threat of climate change; we are sexually diverse like many species yet stand apart as homophobic; and discriminate among our own as if its natural, which it certainly is not.
Our Intelligence allowed us to split the atom, but we\'ve harnessed that knowledge to make machines of war.
All our unique gifts like language, math, and science do not make us happier or more successful (evolutionarily speaking) than other species.
If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal overturns everything we thought we knew about Human intelligence, and asks the question: would humans be better off as narwhals? Or some other, less brainy species? There\'s a good argument to be made that humans might be a less successful Animal species precisely because of our amazing, complex intelligence.
As it turns out, the truth is stranger--and far more interesting--than we have been led to believe. - The New York Times This funny, extraordinary and thought-provoking (The Wall Street Journal) book asks whether we are in fact the superior species. - Ryan Holiday Undeniably entertaining.
San Francisco Chronicle bestseller - BOOKRIOT Best Books of the Year - Next Big Idea Book Club Best Science Books of the Year I love the book, and everyone should read it
