NOT A CHIMP

Are we humans simply remodelled apes? Chimps with a tweak? Is the difference between our genomes so minuscule it justifies the argument that our cognition and behaviour must also differ from chimps by barely a whisker? If “chimps are us” should we grant them human rights? Or is this one of the biggest fallacies in the study of evolution? NOT A CHIMP argues that these similarities have been grossly over-exaggerated - we should keep chimps at arm’s length. Are humans cognitively unique after all?

Friday, 8 June 2012

Domestic dogs display empathic response to distress in humans

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-domestic-dogs-empathic-response-distress.html

Yet more evidence - if needed - of the empathic power of dogs in the context of approaching and empathizing with sounds of crying from humans, even if the individual concerned is not known to the dog.

NOT A CHIMP

Friday, 8 June 2012

Domestic dogs display empathic response to distress in humans

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