Our Animal Nature

Neuroscience is discovering that much of what we have thought of as uniquely human reasoning (including moral reasoning) we at least partly share with other mammals. Part of the relevance of this for negotiating meaning is that much of our brain activity is outside of our conscious awareness and inaccessible to us. In part this is because it originates from the bottom up, from sub-cortical regions of our brains, and only later is rationalized.

1. 1Introduction-our animal natureEnglish
2. 2Do Dogs Speak Human?English
3. 3Moral behavior in animalsEnglish
4. 4The gentle genius of bonobos (Kanzi)English
5. 5Nim ChimpskyEnglish
6. 6Why Dogs Smile and Chimpanzees CryEnglish
7. 7Dogs can read our emotionsEnglish
8. 8How dogs stole our heartsEnglish
9. 9Whales and dolphins lead 'human-like lives'English
10. 10Sheep are able to recognise human faces from photographsEnglish
11. 11Orcas can imitate human speechEnglish
12. 12Smarty Plants and biosemioticsEnglish
13. 13If you could talk to the animalsEnglish