There were numerous attempts in the mid-20th century to try to teach human language to nonhumans, primates such as Koko. And those efforts were somewhat controversial. As we look back, one view we ...

Relying on science, history, and Indigenous knowledge, Jay Griffiths offers an inspiring restorative vision of health in ...

Of course nonhumans can speak! Even if we don’t always understand their language, most of us have had very personal experiences of communicating with our own companion species or nonhuman others ...

The 3-year-olds, by contrast, showed no signs of this bias: They generalized from humans to nonhumans and from nonhumans to humans in just the same way. These findings suggest that an ...

In his eye-opening work, Jeff examines the moral status of nonhumans and makes the case for extending moral consideration to a vast number and wide range of beings in the spirit of caution and ...

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And he is a sheer delight. I cannot recall another movie that wasn’t a Pixar cartoon that so convincingly put nonhumans at its center. That alone would make War for the Planet of the Apes a ...

From Neil Armstrong to Sally Ride, David Bowie to Stan Lee, the world has said farewell to some incredible people in the last 10 years (and a few nonhumans as well). Rather than try to list them ...