A question about polemics
Recently I came across a quotation that expressed, with wonderful clarity, something that I kind of half-knew but had not articulated so well to myself. The historian John P. Meier, in the course of an argument about the historical Jesus of Nazareth, made the following generalization (Meier 1991, ...
Grieving animals?
Chimanzees mourning one of their own.
Chimps line up to watch as Dorothy, who died of heart failure, is wheeled away. Picture: Monica Szczupider, in the National Geographic Magazine (Nov. 2009)
The National Geographic Magazine reports:
"On September 23, 2008, Dorothy, a female chimpanzee in her ...