Lisa Bortolotti on Nostr: “Dubbing an ape’s kiss “mouth-to-mouth contact” so as to avoid ...
“Dubbing an ape’s kiss “mouth-to-mouth contact” so as to avoid anthropomorphism deliberately obfuscates the meaning of the behavior. It would be like assigning Earth’s gravity a different name than the moon’s, just because we think Earth is special.” RIP Frans de Waal #philosophy #biology
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