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Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence
Contributor(s): Shepard, Paul (Author)
ISBN: 0820319821     ISBN-13: 9780820319827
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 1998
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Annotation: 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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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Animals - General
- Nature | Essays
- Philosophy | Movements - Humanism
Dewey: 128.3
LCCN: 97027156
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.99" W x 8.95" (0.90 lbs) 296 pages
 
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Contributor Bio(s): Shepard, Paul: - PAUL SHEPARD (1925-1996) was Avery Professor of Natural Philosophy and Human Ecology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He is the author of twelve books, a number of which are available from the University of Georgia Press.