Who’s with “Homo Mimicus”

Posted by on Jun 27, 2008 in Uncategorized | One Comment

Nice letter in this week’s New Scientist in response to this piece about what separates man from the beasts (a piece I thought was very good, as it happens). Erik Zapletal of NSW writes:  I propose a hypothesis, summed up by changing our name from Homo sapiens, “wise man” to Homo mimicus, “mimicking man”. Many […]