Two fallacies in comparisons between humans and non-humans

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2018
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Ross, Don
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Humane Society Institute for Science and Policy (HSISP)
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The hypothesis that humans are superior to non-humans by virtue of higher cognitive powers is often supported by two recurrent fallacies: (1) that any competence shown by humans but not by our closest living relatives (apes) must be unique to humans; and (2) that grades of intelligence can be inferred from behavior without regard to motivational structures.
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Human cultural traditions , Human behaviour , Non-human , Superiority , Cognition and perception
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Ross, D., 2018. Two fallacies in comparisons between humans and non-humans. Animal Sentience, 3(23), (13).
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https://animalstudiesrepository.org/animsent/vol3/iss23/13/
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https://hdl.handle.net/10468/9162
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© The Author(s) 2018