Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence

Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence
ISBN-10
0820342343
ISBN-13
9780820342344
Category
Nature
Pages
274
Language
English
Published
2011-07-01
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Author
Paul Shepard

Description

In a world increasingly dominated by human beings, the survival of other species becomes more and more questionable. In this brilliant book, Paul Shepard offers a provocative alternative to an "us or them" mentality, proposing that other species are integral to humanity's evolution and exist at the core of our imagination. This trait, he argues, compels us to think of animals in order to be human. Without other living species by which to measure ourselves, Shepard warns, we would be less mature, care less for and be more careless of all life, including our own kind.

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