This is sort of creepy,...
Category: animal behavior
This is sort of creepy, evoking slightly images from that recent movie I didn't see but I saw the trailers: Rise of the Planet of the Apes. You know, virus-vectored, genetically altered chimps and gorillas planning a takeover. Its imagery of primate skullduggery came to mind while reading on the AP Seth Borenstein's review of recent research on the differences and similarities between how people and apes think. It covers such fundamentals as ability to consider themselves as individuals and to empathize or somehow recognize similar volitional intellects...
11Jun 2012
[Updated with link to Katharine Gammon story, below.]
It shouldn't...
[Updated with link to Katharine Gammon story, below.]
It shouldn't come as a great surprise that human beings are animals. But it's an easy thing to forget, because we're constantly telling ourselves, in one way or another, what special animals we are.
So it's nice to get a reminder from Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, a cardiologist, and Kathryn Bowers, a writer whom I met at the NASW meeting last year, that we do have animal natures.
The New York Times apparently agrees, because it gave the pair two ad-free pages inside the Sunday Review...
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