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BOOK
Title Wonderdog : how the science of dogs changed the science of life / Jules Howard
Author Howard, Jules
Imprint London : Bloomsbury Sigma, 2022
©2022

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Naturvetenskap och matematik  599 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Descript 285 pages illustrations (black and white) 23 cm
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
How dogs defied science and changed the way we think about animals What do dogs really think of us? What do dogs know and understand of the world? Do their emotions feel like our own? Do they love like we do? Driven by his own love of dogs, Charles Darwin was nagged by questions like these. To root out answers, his contemporaries toyed with dog sign language. To reveal clues, they made special puzzle boxes and elaborate sniff tests using old socks. Later, the same perennial questions about the minds of dogs drove Pavlov and Pasteur to unspeakable cruelty in their search for truth. These big names in science influenced leagues of psychologists and animal behaviourists, each building upon the ideas and received wisdom of previous generations but failing to see what was staring them in the face - that the very methods humans used to study dogs' minds were influencing the insights reflected back
Subject Hundar
Biologi
Naturvetenskap
Dogs -- Research -- History
Dogs -- Research.
Populärvetenskapliga verk
History.
Classmark 599.772
ISBN/ISSN 9781472984265
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