Many people believe that humans are animals and that, like other animals, we are a product of evolution. But is holding such a belief helpful? Can it provide us with insight into what humans are like and why we behave as we do?
Do we have a “human nature”? Cats behave like cats, right? Dogs behave like dogs. What do humans behave like?
These are the sorts of questions which were buzzing around my head when I started studying for a PhD in Psychology when I was in my mid-40s at the University of Exeter in the English country of Devon.