WHY do religious fundamentalists oppose the theory of evolution, despite the weight of evidence supporting it? The answer may lie with a deep-seated intuition that humans are qualitatively different from other animals – a difference so great that, for some, descent from a common ancestor is harder to imagine than the alternative.
As director of the University of California’s SAGE Center for the Study of Mind in Santa Barbara, Michael Gazzaniga is no creationist. His confidence in our biological ties with the great apes is resolute. Yet, unlike many of his peers, Gazzaniga is not shy about trumpeting our special…
