So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events (Revised) this new edition is graced

this new edition is graced by a succinct and careful outline of the life and work of the author

But she doesn't have a clue who her father is

illustrated by award-winning artist AG Ford

" --The Atlantic

So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events (Revised) this new edition is gracedAt least until cloning becomes the order of the day, Rene Dubos contends that each human being is unique, unprecedented, unrepeatable. However, today each person faces the critical danger of losing this very humanness to his mechanized surroundings. Most people spend their days in a confusion of concrete and steel, trapped "in the midst of noise, dirt, ugliness and absurdity." So begins the essential message of the work of one of the great figures in