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Overview : ?A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcomings.? - Adam GrantThis funny,?"extraordinary and thought-provoking" (The Wall Street Journal)?book asks whether we are in fact the superior species. As it turns out, the truth is stranger?and far more interesting?than we have been led to believe.If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal?overturns everything we thought we knew about human intelligence, and asks the question: would humans be better off as narwhals? Or some other, less brainy species? There?s a good argument to be made that humans might be a less successful animal species precisely because of our amazing, complex intelligence. ? All our unique gifts like language, math, and science do not make us happier or more ?successful? (evolutionarily speaking) than other species. Our intelligence allowed us to split the atom, but we?ve harnessed that knowledge to make machines of war. We are uniquely susceptible to bullshit (though, cuttlefish may