Mirror neurons and humanity's dark side

Gisela Kaplan

doi:10.51291/2377-7478.1401

Mirror neurons and humanity's dark side

Gisela Kaplan

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The last two decades have revealed brain mechanisms in birds and primates showing that, contrary to earlier prejudices, some birds can do things (cognitive and affective) on par with or even better than great apes and humans. The old dichotomies are breaking down; but the dark side is that these insights come at a time in the Anthropocene when humans have caused and continue to cause mass extinctions.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Journal	Animal Sentience
Volume	3
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.51291/2377-7478.1401
Publication status	Published - 31 Dec 2019

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Mirror neurons and humanity's dark side

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