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Animate: How Animals Shape the Human Mind by Michael Bond games Lonely Planet's local travel expertsA mind expanding deep dive into how animals have shaped us, from the palaeolithic to the present day. In Animate, science writer Michael Bond explores how animals have profoundly influenced our minds and cultures. Drawing on cutting edge insights from psychology, anthropology, literature and neuroscience, Bond traces the varied ways their lives have affected ours, from our hunter gatherer ancestors whose brains were rewired by the prey they hunted and