UNE’s David Livingston Smith’s paper argues that the category “human” does not correspond to any biological taxon and is instead a political construction.

David Livingstone Smith presented a paper titled “‘Human’ is an essentially political category” on July 8 at a conference on Human Dignity and Human Rights: Rethinking the Connection sponsored by Monash University in Australia.  Smith’s paper argues that the category “human” does not correspond to any biological taxon and is instead a political construction.