gideon’s Reviews > Dinomania: Why We Love, Fear and Are Utterly Enchanted by Dinosaurs > Status Update

The meaning of 'human,' in summary, is not something that we can take for granted. Biological definitions, in addition to usually being ambiguous, have only a very oblique relationship to the ways in which we usually use the word... But whatever 'humanity' may be, our chances of preserving it will be better if we do not commit ourselves to any definition that is too narrow and restrictive.