Emma Weine’s Reviews > Last Ape Standing: The Seven-Million-Year Story of How and Why We Survived > Status Update

'The average two-year-old is thirty inches tall and twenty-eight pounds of pure, cerebral appetite determined without plan or guile to snatch up absolutely everything knowable from the world. She or he is, indisputably, the most ravenous, and most successful, learning machine yet devised in the universe.'