** "Science Friday" Summer Reading Pick**
**"Discover" magazine Top 5 Summer Reads**
**"People" magazine Best Summer Reads**
" A] lovely, big-hearted book...brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well." --"The New York Times[...]
Science historian Laurel Braitman draws on evidence from across the world to show, for the first time, how astonishingly similar humans and other animals are when it comes to their emotional wellbeing. Charles Darwin developed his evolutionary theories by studying Galapagos finches and fancy pigeons[...]