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Animals Using Healing Plants? That’s Old News

Recently, an orangutan who successfully treated a wound by applying chewed leaves to it touched off a worldwide media event. Read More ›
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Photo: A scene from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, via YouTube (screenshot).

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Read More ›
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Photo: An orangutan, by entrecon, via Pixabay.

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›
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Man, with His Special Place in Nature, Was Designed to Use Fire

Only a special type of being very close to our own biological design could have taken the first and vital step to technological enlightenment, fire-making. Read More ›
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New York High Court to Rule Whether Elephants Are “Persons”

Imagine: pet ownership made a formal legal guardianship complete with enforceable fiduciary duties — that is, if we can have pets at all. Read More ›
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In Argentina, Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Refusing to Terminate Pregnancy

I can write those words. I understand their meaning. But I can’t comprehend such an utter rejection of human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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In Germany, Constitutional Rights for…Pigs

The issue is known as “animal standing,” and activists want to let beasts sue in court to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›
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Lake Erie Now Has Rights

If nature has rights, that means everything does, which devalues “rights” just as a wild inflation deflates the worth of currency. Read More ›
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Another Push for Plant “Rights”

There is increasing wind in the sails of everything-deserves-rights advocacy. Read More ›

Here We Go Again: Suing for “Elephant Rights”

Our care and treatment of animals arise from human duties, not conjuring rights for animals out of ideological zeal. Read More ›

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