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Letter: What makes us human? Our self-delusions

Published 18 September 2024

From Chas Bazeley, Colchester, Essex, UK

The more I learn in Âé¶¹´«Ã½ about the physical, mental and emotional abilities of animals, the more it strikes me that the only thing that makes us distinctly human is our almost limitless capacity for self-delusion (3 August, p 32)

Issue no. 3509 published 21 September 2024

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