Two fallacies in comparisons between humans and non-humans

Animal Sentience 3 (23) (2018)
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Abstract

The hypothesis that humans are superior to non-humans by virtue of higher cognitive powers is often supported by two recurrent fallacies: that any competence shown by humans but not by our closest living relatives must be unique to humans; and that grades of intelligence can be inferred from behavior without regard to motivational structures.

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