Christopher X J. Jensen
Associate Professor, Pratt Institute

Tim Birkenhead on anthropomorphism and animal emotion

Posted 23 Jun 2012 / 0

The Chronicle of Higher Education “Do Birds Have Emotions?” Very interesting animal stories here, so grisly and some inspiring. I never knew about the cooperation between guillemots, but the emotional signs that Birkenhead describes make sense in the context of cooperation: the real purpose of emotions, it seems, is to balance out the costs and Read More

A Minor Post, Adaptation, Articles, Cooperation, Emotion