The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

...Ethologists who study animal behaviour increasingly accept the idea that fear keeps animals away from predators, lust draws them towa...

Dan Sperber asks a question .

The infectiousness of laughter even works across species. Below my office window at the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta, Georgia, I often h...

Having proved men and brutes bodies on one type: almost superfluous to consider minds. [1] Almost but not quite: He who understands babo...

...elaborate displays of apparent maternal grief [by a gorilla] may reveal less about our [human and gorilla] shared awareness of death than...