What makes us human?

FOR Dr. Armand Leroi
Imperial College London

Re: The unfortunate 'rat people' of Pakistan could provide the answer.

What makes us human? Not this gene or that gene. Not being free from being a chua or a rat. What makes us human? It is the capacity to love this kind of people, to accept them as they were made. Or should we make specimens of them as freaks from malfunctioning human parts? How do we know our premise is right?

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