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Your Home Becomes You, In A Way

Basic Books

There's no place like home, jillions of people once said. 

And there's nothing like a human, we should add. 

Because humans and homes are intricately interconnected, a connection explored by anthropologist John Allen in Home: How Habitat Made Us Human

We learn much about how our making of homes makes us different from other species--all of them.

The author visits with us. 
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.