Fish, mirrors, and a gradualist perspective on self-awareness.
The mirror mark test has encouraged a binary view of self-awareness according to which a few species possess this capacity whereas others do not. Given how evolution works, however, we need a more gradualist model of the various ways in which animals construe a self and respond to mirrors. The recen...
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Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-02-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000112 |