Abstract
Abstract The human being—the entertainer formerly known as Man—is the repairing animal. Repair certainly is n’t the only work humans do, nor are we the only animals that do it. And no doubt there already are plenty of venerable and captivating portraits of Homo sapiens—as the rational animal, the political animal, the social animal, the animal that really-and-not-just-apparently uses language, the only thinking thing that also has emotions, the only thinking thing that worries about whether it is the only thinking thing. But there is a powerful and fascinating case for regarding Homo sapiens as Homo reparans.
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