The Aesop's Fable Paradigm
Povinelli, Daniel J
The Aesop's Fable Paradigm is a collection of essays that explore the cutting-edge intersection of Folklore and Science. From moralizing fables to fantastic folktales, humans have been telling stories about animals--animals who can talk, feel, think, and make moral judgments just as we do--for a very long time. In contrast, scientific studies of the mental lives of animals have professed to be investigating the nature of animal minds slowly, c...