Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human IntelligenceUniversity of Georgia Press, 1998 - 274 ページ 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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abstract adult animal figures anthropologists beasts become behavior benefits bestiary birds body brain breeds Bruno Bettelheim carnivores cats cattle century child childhood clan classification Claude Levi-Strauss cognitive conflict consciousness creatures defined definition difficult diversity dogs domestic animals eating ecological evolution experience fairy tale fauna feelings field figures find first fish flow flowers forms grassland habitat herbivores horses human society hunting idea images individual insects intelligence kind language Litisep live logic machines mals mammals mature means metaphor mind Minotaur modern monsters myth names nature nonhuman Nuer objects omnivores one’s organs ourselves Paleolithic Paul Shepard perception personality play poetic predator prey primate qualities rabbit reality reflection relationship Reynard ritual seems seen sense significance social species specific speech stories striptease symbolic taxonomy things tion totemic culture totemic thought traits turning knot types visual whole wild animals