Neil Shubin
And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen
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The Cold Descriptor of Ympathy in Rats
Rats have been shown to show empathy for their fellow rats in an experiment. But do those things express themselves with the clarity that it is, i hate to use the word, a kindness or some type of shared human sense like that? Or is it just kind of replicated behavior that, from our point of view, seems to aline in something, in a way that makes us so anthropomorphic? The cold description of it would not be ptempathy. That's fas e. Now, it would that be an evolutionary trait to just continue to propagate their species wel yother you can speculate on a lot of that.
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