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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Main Author: Frans B M de Waal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-02-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000112