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The Search for What Makes Us Human: The Killer Ape Account of the Mid-20th Century
Does violence make humans unique? Melinda Baldwin reviews Erika Lorraine Milam’s “Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America.”
Melinda Baldwin
Melinda Baldwin is a historian of science based at Physics Today. She is the author of Making “Nature”: The History of a Scientific Journal (2015).