“Sociobiology reduces the human to the animal instead of observing how the animal becomes human.”
Harvey Mansfield (1932) Author, professor
How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)
“Humans are animals of habit.”
— Arundhati Roy, book The God of Small Things
Source: The God of Small Things
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