Anthropomorphism and Anthropodenial in Our Understanding of Animals
Anthropomorphism has gathered much of our attention as an important bias to avoid, while our tendencies towards anthropodenial, especially in research, have been largely ignored... But why?
Anthropomorphism and Anthropodenial in Our Understanding of Animals Anthropomorphism has gathered much of our attention as an important bias to avoid, while our tendencies towards anthropodenial, especially in research, have been largely ignored... But why? Airen Sep 26, 2024 14 1 Share In 2016, presumably tired from a whole career of being accused of anthropomorphizing the primates he studied for daring to name them or hypothesize they might have inner selves, Frans de Waal published the book Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? , which became an instant classic in the critique
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