Stian’s Reviews > How to Be Animal: What it Means to Be Human > Status Update

We've largely ignored Darwin's scribbled note to himself not to use the words 'higher' or 'lower' in discussions. This is especially true of mental processes,which we routinely label as 'higher order' or 'lower order'. Many of us now assume that only one kind of thinking has intrinsic value.[...]that there's only one kind of thinking, and only humans can do it. This is not only wrong;it impoverishes the living world.