On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
David Waltner-Toewsaeon.co
On the shared genetic memories between us, the cat and the fly | Aeon Essays
Today, there is perhaps no animal we are more unmoored from than ourselves. ‘The world is now dominated by an animal that doesn’t think it’s an animal,’ writes the natural philosopher Melanie Challenger in How to Be Animal (2021) . ‘ And the future is being imagined by an animal that doesn’t want to be an animal.’