Frans De Waal Quotes

Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives. It Is A Great Leap Forward, The One That Griffin Fought For. But Now That Animal Cognition Is An Increasingly Popular Topic, We Are Still Facing The Mindset That Animal Cognition Can Be Only A Poor Substitute Of What We Humans Have. It Can't Be Truly Deep And Amazing. Toward The End Of A Long Career, Many A Scholar Cannot Resist Shining A Light On Human Talents By Listing All The Things We Are Capable Of And Animals Not. From The Human Perspective, These Conjectures May Make A Satisfactory Read, But For Anyone Interested, As I Am, In The Full Spectrum Of Cognitions On Our Planet, They Come Across As A Colossal Waste Of Time. What A Bizarre Animal We Are That The Only Question We Can Ask In Relation To Our Place In Nature Is "Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who Is The Smartest Of Them All?

Frans De Waal Quotes: Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives.

Frans De Waal Quotes: Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives.

Frans De Waal Quotes: Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives.

Frans De Waal Quotes: Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives.

Frans De Waal Quotes: Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives.

Frans De Waal Quotes: Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives.

Frans De Waal Quotes: Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives.

Frans De Waal Quotes: Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives.

Frans De Waal Quotes: Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives.

Frans De Waal Quotes: Having Escaped The Dark Ages In Which Animals Were Mere Stimulus-response Machines, We Are Free To Contemplate Their Mental Lives.

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