“It's no secret to any dog-lover or cat-lover that humans have a special connection with animals. But in a new journal article and forthcoming book, paleoanthropologist Pat Shipman of Penn State University argues that this human-animal connection goes well beyond simple affection. Shipman proposes that the interdependency of ancestral humans with other animal species -- “the animal connection” -- played a crucial and beneficial role in human evolution over the last 2.6 million years. “Establishing an intimate connection to other animals is unique and universal to our species,” said Shipman, a professor of biological anthropology. Her paper describing the new hypothesis for human evolution based on the tendency to nurture members of other species will be published in the August 2010 issue of the journal Current Anthropology. In addition to describing her theory in the scientific paper, Shipman has authored a book for the general public, now in press with W. W. Norton, titled The Animal Connection. “No other mammal routinely adopts other species in the wild -- no gazelles take in baby cheetahs, no mountain lions raise baby deer,” — Shipman said. “Every mouthful you feed to another species is one that your own children do not eat. On the face of it, caring for another species is maladaptive, so why do we humans do this?” - × × ×

«unique and universal to our species» — not so; ants cultivate other bugs. - 9000

Там же написано — “No other mammal routinely adopts other species in the wild”. - × × ×

Книжка Companion Species Manifesto очень неплоха, её та же тётка написала, что и Cyborg Manifesto. - Done Is Done

почитал отрывки из Cyborg Manifesto (http://www.stanford.edu/dept...); imho, ужос. - 9000