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Neuroscientists sometimes refer disparagingly to these studies as “blobology,” their tongue-in-cheek label for studies that show which brain areas become activated as subjects experience X or perform task Y.

Philosophen verzichten bis heute gern darauf, uns als das anzusehen, was wir sind: ein Tier, eine Primatenspezies mit ihren entsprechenden sozialen Bedürfnissen.

In one step it exposed the fallacy of all previous attempts to understand and engineer human behavior as diverse capabilities.

the brain evolved to reward us for learning about our environment.

The fact that dogs can be party to emotional relationships with humans convinces most dog owners that dogs are not mindless automata.

One of the most obvious features of animal behavior is the tendency to explore the environment.

De Waal zieht aus seinen Studien den Schluss: Die menschliche Moral ist »fest in den sozialen Emotionen unserer Vorfahren verankert«.