ABSTRACT
In his book Man, Beast and Zombie, Kenan Malik argues that human
beings are quite unlike any other organism in the natural world. We
have a dual nature. We are evolved, biological creatures, with an evo-
lutionary past, and in this sense we are simply objects in nature. But we
also have self-consciousness, agency and the capacity for rationality,
and as a result we alone in the natural world are able to transcend our
evolutionary heritage and to transform ourselves and the world in
which we live. Science, though, is taking its time in getting to grips with
this dual nature of human beings.
