[log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask]) writes:
That's not anthropomorphism. It's simply describing behaviour in a way we
understand - it is not ascribing human emotions to them.
characteristics to something is not human. Anthropo means human and
morphism is form or shape'.Kitta
That's not necessarily how the term is described in the
biological/behavioral sciences. I quoted the generic dictionary definition, but even it
says:
Someone attributes human feelings (that's your emotion) and
characteristics (not necessarily emotion) to something is not human (animals). Anthropo
means human and morphism is form or shape'.
I have seen drift in the definition by animal behavior specialists. In
the 90s, a workshop at a Nat Meeting of one of the Major Behavioral Society
hotly debated this issue. Yet, I see more and more of this creeping into
the animal literature.
Jerry
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