Yes, Human Beings Are Exceptional

Let me tell you the tale of the ungrateful creatures who crawled out of Eden.

They murdered their own mothers. They slaughtered their own siblings. And they reproduced with such wild abandon that their success drove nearly all other life on Earth extinct.

I’m talking, of course, about certain nematode worms, sand tiger sharks, and cyanobacteria, respectively.1

“Wait a minute,” you say, “I thought this was about us!”