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Quotes from Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence — Paul Shepard

d. 1996 United States

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Animals are among the first inhabitants of the mind's eye. They are basic to the development of speech and thought. Because of their part in the growth of consciousness, they are inseparable from the series of events in each human life, indispensable to our becoming human in the fullest sense.

Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence (1978)

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