Jonathan Leaf

About The Author

Jonathan Leaf is a playwright and novelist. He has written for the Daily Beast, Commentary, National Review, The New Criterion, Modern Age, Tablet, the New York Post, New York Daily News, Spectator (USA), Law & Liberty, City Journal, The Weekly Standard, and many other publications.

In 2018, The Wall Street Journal called his play Pushkin a “triumph,” naming it one of the year’s four best. Kirkus Reviews has called his novel City of Angles “literary entertainment at its best.” Now Leaf turns his attention to the subject that his parents devoted their lives to and with which he has had a lifelong fascination: what neuroscience is revealing about human nature.

Books by Jonathan Leaf

The Primate Myth

Why the Latest Science Leads Us to a New Theory of Human Nature

By Jonathan Leaf
Challenging everything we thought we knew, this book takes a revolutionary look at how humans are far less like other primates than we’ve been led to believe—and uncovers what truly sets us apart.
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