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“Animals are not like us,” a colleague confidently declared. “They do not have the ability to reason.” According to this friend and colleague, unlike man, who possesses reason and can think things out, the force we call instinct, inborn behavior, guides the actions of animals. Does our ability to reason set us apart from the animal world?
An Old Controversy
In the early 1900s, alarmed by the emergence of children’s books that humanized animals, what has been called the “Bambi Syndrome,” President Theodore Roosevelt, hunter and naturalist, declared animals were guided by instinct alone and only man could reason. Roosevelt accused outdoor writer Jack London and others of being “nature-fakers.” London responded by writing a spirited defense of animals and their ability to reason entitled The Other Animals, where he referred to the President as an “amateur” when it came to understanding evolution.1. In August of 1908, the feud made news in the New York Times and the debate continues to this day.2.
From Wild to Domestic
In his book Meditations On Hunting, the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset explored the issue of animals and reasoning. Ortega believed wild animals are indeed guided by instincts, but as animals were domesticated, they began to lose many instinctive behaviors and a rudimentary form of reasoning seems to have appeared in them. He wrote that studies of brain development show increased growth in the frontal cerebral region in domesticated dogs, compared with the brains of their wild cousins, a phenomenon that also existed in the brains of modern man and Neanderthals. Frontal regions of the brain control thought processes. To Ortega, like the animals, we were once beings with limited reasoning capability. As we acquired language our capacity to reason increased. As animals became closer to man, they developed enhanced reasoning ability, being trained with commands and gaining exposure to our language.
An Old Controversy
In the early 1900s, alarmed by the emergence of children’s books that humanized animals, what has been called the “Bambi Syndrome,” President Theodore Roosevelt, hunter and naturalist, declared animals were guided by instinct alone and only man could reason. Roosevelt accused outdoor writer Jack London and others of being “nature-fakers.” London responded by writing a spirited defense of animals and their ability to reason entitled The Other Animals, where he referred to the President as an “amateur” when it came to understanding evolution.1. In August of 1908, the feud made news in the New York Times and the debate continues to this day.2.
From Wild to Domestic
In his book Meditations On Hunting, the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset explored the issue of animals and reasoning. Ortega believed wild animals are indeed guided by instincts, but as animals were domesticated, they began to lose many instinctive behaviors and a rudimentary form of reasoning seems to have appeared in them. He wrote that studies of brain development show increased growth in the frontal cerebral region in domesticated dogs, compared with the brains of their wild cousins, a phenomenon that also existed in the brains of modern man and Neanderthals. Frontal regions of the brain control thought processes. To Ortega, like the animals, we were once beings with limited reasoning capability. As we acquired language our capacity to reason increased. As animals became closer to man, they developed enhanced reasoning ability, being trained with commands and gaining exposure to our language.
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