Bryan Appleyard
Let Us Withdraw
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
By John Gray
Granta Books 246pp £12.99 order from our bookshop
It is often casually assumed that we have assimilated Charles Darwin. He established the mechanism of our relationship to the natural world and thereby completed the project that began with Copernicus – the displacement of humankind from its throne at the centre of creation. Darwin, Richard Dawkins has said, made it intellectually respectable to be an atheist.
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