Search for human essence 'a 2,000-year myth'

Search for human essence 'a 2,000-year myth' - The Irish Times - Fri, Jul 13, 2012: "The differences between humans and our nearest relatives, the great apes, may be no more than a small collection of genes. And increasingly we are measuring our supposedly human mental capabilities against those running on the nearest computer, a session at the EuroScience Open Forum in Dublin heard yesterday titled: “I human: are new scientific discoveries challenging our identity as a species?”"