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Anthropomorphism in science
Author(s) -
Davies Julian
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2010.143
Subject(s) - creatures , anthropocentrism , environmental ethics , biology , cognitive science , psychology , philosophy , paleontology , natural (archaeology)
It is a human characteristic to assign human emotion and behaviour to other living creatures. Yet anthropocentrism may well have ‘infected’ microbiology and misdirected research