The Science of Being Human

But evolution is not a process of increasing complexity, nor any other measure of superiority you can find.

Our genus Homo contains just one species at the moment, and that’s us

none of us is an island and we all live out our lives surrounded by other humans.

and to my mind there is nothing more fascinating than the science of being human.

he system was invented back in 1735 by one of the great scientists of the eighteenth century, a Swedish naturalist called Carl Linnaeus

the humble and dull-looking lymphocytes turned out to be at the heart of the system. Not only that, there are three distinct flavours of lymphocyte: the B-cells make antibodies, the T-cells identify foreign agents in our bodies and the natural killer cells seek out and destroy our own cells that have become infected with viruses.

The kingdom of Fungi is fairly straightforward, although far bigger than you may imagine, and plants are now divided into the kingdom of Chromista, where you find the algae and seaweeds, and the kingdom of Plantae, where trees and grass and such can be found.

and I are both part of the human race.

am a member of the species Homo sapiens.

What does it actually mean to be human and what is the science behind it?