A recent common ancestor refers to the most recent shared ancestor between two species within the same taxonomic group, indicating a closer evolutionary relationship compared to species in different groups. AI generated definition based on: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, ...
Human beings have always seen —or felt— “truths” right under our noses: God exists, the sky is blue, the sun is yellow and rises and sets as if playing hide-and-seek with us, fire burns, rocks are hard and can house the soul of some ancestor, the stars hang from the ceiling ...
Although bees are separated from humans by about 600 million years with a common ancestor that had only a rudimentary nervous system, they still share over 60% of our Genome. Any commonly observed learning principles between bees and humans may be consequently either basal, or may have evolved ...
“social kinship” between humans and other animals makes it possible to conclude that satisfying the social needs of dogs by providing cooperative and empathic human leadership is crucial for their welfare, and that anthropomorphising dogs on the basis of informed human empathy is not as negative...