I'm pretty sure there's a mistake here. Rockstar's claiming Grand Theft Auto V -- my review is here -- was the best-selling game of 2013, but that can't be right, because consoles are dead: subverted ...

As someone who has studied and written about the cognitive and emotional lives of nonhuman animals (animals) for many decades, I've read various accounts about the good, the bad, and the ugly of ...

People talk to their plants, pray to humanlike gods, name their cars, and even dress their pets up in clothing. We have a strong tendency to give non-human entities human characteristics (known as ...

Clive Wynne misrepresented my published views in his Concepts essay “The perils of anthropomorphism” (Nature 428, 606; 2004). The concept of ‘critical anthropomorphism’ helps to establish ground rules ...