Humans Are More than Mammals

The New York Times, a newspaper dedicated to undermining human exceptionalism, publishes such subversive advocacy regularly. The latest example, by English professor Randy Laist in yesterday's Sunday Review section, says we should identify as mammals rather than humans. From "Why I Identify as Mammal":

In a world of conscious beings, identity matters. Self-perception plays a vital role in behavior, so the question of how human beings think about themselves in relation to the world is more th...