India, Sept. 12 -- Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. In Humans: A Monstrous History, award-winning science historian Surekha Davies reveals how people have defined the human in relation to everything from apes to zombies, and how they invented race, gender, and nations along the way. With rich, evocative storytelling that braids together ancient deities and generative AI, Frankenstein's monster and ET, this book shows how monster-making is about control: it defines who gets to count as normal. In tracing this arc, the book also explores the long and volatile history of monster-making, in ways that chart a better path for the future. The result is a profound retelling of a sort of history of the world, relevant to anyone looking for new approaches to inequality and polarisation. This is not a history of monsters, but a history through monsters....